[37434] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
You are Not Alone, In the fight Against addiction.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alcohol Rehabilitation)
Wed Mar 18 20:11:12 2015
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:11:11 -0400
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practical one. In course of time the authority of the state had become reconciled to the taking of interest. In Attica LIBTSNLNI interest had for long been
hi from legal restriction. the universal empire of rome, without formally rescinding those severe laws which entirely forbade the taking of interest, 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
had first condoned, then formally sanctioned it by IIUDMQR the institution of legal rates.15 The fact was that economical relations had become too complicated
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steadily on the side of 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee interest. In such circumstances, to write in favour of it was superfluous, to write against it was hopeless; and it is a most
significant indication of this state UHTI of matters that SFMIPXT almost the only quarter in which interest was still censured—and that in a resigned kind of </p>
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<p>way—was in the works of the philosophical ABQSQEH writers. The writers of the Christian Middle Ages had more occasion to treat the subject thoroughly. </p>
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<p align="center" style="font: 11px;">The dark days which preceded and followed the break up of the Roman Empire had brought a reaction YPRUUEN MUVSPQN in YKWTSLC economical matters, which, in its turn, had the
natural result of strengthening the old hostile hiling against interest. The peculiar spirit of Christianity worked in the same direction. The 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
exploitation of poor debtors by 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee rich hiors must have KLXKOQGF appeared in VPHNJEIP a peculiarly hateful light to one whose religion taught him to look upon
gentleness and charity as among the RUKNN greatest virtues, and to think little of the goods of this world. But what had most influence CGEBTDU was that, in the
sacred writings of the new testament, were found certain phiages which, as usually interpreted, seemed to contain a direct divine prohibition of the MQWW
taking of interest. this was particularly true of the famous phiage in Luke: "Lend, hoping for nothing again."16 The powerful support which the 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
spirit of the time, already hostile to interest, thus found in the express utterance of divine authority, gave it 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee the power once more to draw
legislation to its side. The Christian Church lent its arm. Step by step it managed to introduce the prohibition into legislation. First the taking of DXJTOPAM
interest was forbidden by the Church, and to the clergy only. Then it was forbidden the laity also, but still the prohibition only came from the 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee
Church. At last even the temporal legislation succumbed to the Church's influence, and gave its severe statutes the sanction of Roman law.17 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee </p>
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<p align="left">For fifteen hundred years this turn of affairs gave abundant support to those writers who FJAONI were hostile to interest. The old pagan philosophers
could fling their denunciations on the world without much proving, because they were neither inclined nor able to 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee give them practical effect. As a
"Platonic" utterance of the idealists their criticism 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee had not EFG sufficient weight in the world of practice to be either seriously opposed or seriously
defended. But now the matter had again become practical. Once the RVVTCCVV Word of God was made victorious on earth, a hostility immediately showed itself, .</p>
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