Religion without a Church is not really possible, for not only is man a social animal, but religion is essentially social. And more and more is the c… - Neville Figgis

Modern altruism in its varied forms may be traced not obscurely to Christian influence, although even ethically it is not identical therewith.

From the Monarchomachi we naturally pass to the Jesuits, the real agents of the Counter-Reformation, and partly also of Spanish aggression. Nearly all of the Jesuit writers of importance in the earlier years of their existence are Spaniards, or Philo-Spaniards. We must regard their attitude as partly, at least, determined by national feeling—even in spite of their professed aims.

Jean Bodin is, next to Machiavelli, the most important political writer of the sixteenth century.