Capitolo 56
the certain habits of belief, in conformism to that the whole community
goes together. All of us believe that anything is in harmony with, or analogous
to, the general type of faith that prevails in our his/her own generation. Anybody
now you/he/she could be convinced that a dead head could speak, or a change of wolf
his/her nature to protect him/it; but thousand it will accredit a diviner,
or he/she believes that a spellbound patient can have a mental perception of
scenes and events thousand miles street.
There was a lot of superstition of days when Alfred was
called to the throne, and there was also, with him, a lot
honest and genuine pity. Also, the pity and the superstition were
mixed inextricably and it combined together. They was everybody
Catholics then, producing an implicit obedience to the Church in Rome,
regular contributions that do in the money to sustain the papal authority,
and looking in Rome as the great one and stings central of Cristiano
influence and it motorizes, and the object of the supreme veneration. We have
already considering that the Saxons had established a seminar to Rome that
King Ethelwolf, the father of Alfred, reconstructed and king-gifted. One of the
the first Anglo-Saxon kings had also, given a concession of a penny from
every house in the kingdom to the successors of St. Pietro in Rome,
what tax, although nominally small, it produced a very considerable sum
in the aggravation, exceeding for many years the real incomes of the
king of England. It continued to be paid down to the time of Henry
VIII., when the reform swept away that, and all the other
national obligations of England in the Catholic Church together.
In the age of Alfred, they were not only however these public actions
of recognition that recognizes the papal supremacy, but there was
a strong tide to feel personnel and privacy of the veneration and
the affection in the Church of mother of which it is hard for us, in the
it foresees separated is of Christianity to conceive. The religious
thoughts and the affections of every pious heart in the whole kingdom