History Forum / General / British History / December 2003

| >The Protestant Christian Religion was indeed a Key Factor in _The
| > Rise Of The West_ ---- and in the West's continuing predominate
| > position in World Affairs.

| >Anglicanism ---- particularly in its 19th Century form of Muscular
| >Christianity, as epitomized by Dr. Thomas Arnold [1795-1842] as
| >headmaster of Rugby school, has been particularly important.

| On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:15:19 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
| <D_SpencerHines@usa.yale.edu> wrote:
|
| >The Protestant Christian Religion was indeed a Key Factor in _The

| >Of The West_ ---- and in the West's continuing predominate position

| >World Affairs.
| >
| >Anglicanism ---- particularly in its 19th Century form of Muscular
| >Christianity, as epitomized by Dr. Thomas Arnold [1795-1842] as
| >headmaster of Rugby school, has been particularly important.
| >
| >Dr. Arnold [Matthew Arnold's father] championed and spread Anglican
| >Liberalism ---- which is nothing like the pale, sickly and insipid
| >version of "Liberalism" peddled, pandered and prattled by American
| >Left-Wing Democrats.
| >
| >Muscular Christianity is the form of Christianity still nurtured in

| >of Britain's best "public" schools and Americans' best "private"
| >schools ----- which have not been quite as tainted by incompetent,
| >wool-gathering, flakey academics as have hoi-polloi schools in each
| >Nation.
| ** Hmmm, rather selective. Many of the Brits who expanded the British
| Empire were Scots, most of which were non-Anglican Presbyterians,
| brought up in the idea that everyone is equal and has the same set of
| god-given abilities (NOT opportunities]. Canada and Australia in
| particular were influenced by the Scots, as was Hong Kong, where the
| main education system was set up and nurtured by a Scot.
| Gordon
|
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