They hold un- Roman ideas that spread like contagion.

Jesus never existed, and Christianity arose in the middle of the first century from a fusion of Judaic and Greco- Roman ideas.

Where Christianity arose from a fusion of Judaic and Greco- Roman ideas, Islam arose from Talmudic Judaic, Syriac Christian, and indirectly, Greco-Roman ideas.

Everywhere except in Britain, therefore, the conquerors had already imbibed Roman ideas, and the authority of Rome was in a certain sense acknowledged.

He had lived as a youth in the imperial court at Constantinople and there had become well acquainted with Roman ideas of law and order.

When with these Greek and Roman ideas the Hebrew-Christian influences blended, no conception of progress in the modern sense was added by the Church's contribution.