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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Protestantism |
 | | The ministerial energies are turned towards works of charity, foreign missions, polemics against Catholics. |
 | | Dotted all over the West, the monks formed model societies, well-organized, justly ruled, and prospering by the work of their hands, true ideals of a superior civilization. |
 | | It was still the ancient Roman civilization, permeated with Christianity, but shackled by the jarring interests of Church and State. |
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