renunciation of the greater part of individualistic tendencies."

[3] See David Masson, Life of John Milton, III. 136; John Tulloch, Rational
Theology and Christian Philosophy in England, II. 9; John Hunt,
Religious Thought in England, I. 234.

[4] The word socialism is not used here with any understanding that the
Catholic Church accepts the social theories implied by that name. It is
used to indicate that the Roman Church maintains that revelation is to
the church itself, and that it is now the visible representative of
Christ. The Protestant maintains that revelation is made through an
individual, and not to a church. See Otto Gierke, Political Theories of
the Middle Age, translated by F.W. Maitland, 10, 22. "In all centuries
of the Middle Age Christendom is set before us a single, universal
community, founded and governed by God himself. Mankind is one mystical
body; it is one single and internally connected people or fold; it is
an all-embracing corporation, which constitutes that Universal Realm,
spiritual, and temporal, which may be called the Universal Church, or,
with equal propriety, the Commonwealth of the Human Race.... Mediaeval
thought proceeded from the idea of a single whole. Therefore an organic
construction of human society was as familiar to it as a mechanical and
atomistic construction was originally alien. Under the influence of
biblical allegories and the models set by Greek and Roman writers, the
comparison of mankind at large and every smaller group to an animate
body was universally adopted and pressed. Mankind in its totality was
conceived as an Organism."

[5] Tulloch, Rational Theology in England, I. 339.

[6] David Masson, Life of Milton, III. 102.