“There are those who argue for the neccessity of correct social conditions, and much energy is spent scrutinising the relation between the economic base and the cultural superstructure, and there are those who argue that history is a plastic medium in the hands of those who rise to greatness. There has also been much argument amongst historians as to how the New Albigensian Crusade could possibly have occurred. From every angle it appears that such a phenomenon should have been utterly impossibl...e at such a late stage of civilisation, when it was beginning to appear that there was so much peace that history had virtually stopped happening at all. Surely, the historians feel, mankind had already reached the stage when almost everyone recognised that no belief was so certain that it was worth killing for. Surely we had become sufficiently religiously mature not to have to bother about whether or not the Blessed Virgin was immaculately conceived, or whether or not one’s neighbour believed in the literal resurrection of the body?MoreLessRead More Read Less
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