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To: ouroboros
At first glance, Augustine might be read as advocating here the creation of the First Universal Nation comprising “a society of nations, speaking all languages."

Yep. That's the City of God. And that's a multicultural city. Augustine was advocating multiculturalism. So Augustine can't serve as an authority for the Williamson's pro-nationalist views.

Williamson recognizes this problem and tries to get out of it by spiritualizing this multiculturalism, viz., A closer reading shows, however, that the “citizens” are called “out” in a spiritual rather than a physical sense.

But this is just obfuscation.

3 posted on 12/23/2001 9:57:17 PM PST by codeword
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To: codeword
Wow. The City of God turns out to be a lot like Babel.
5 posted on 12/23/2001 10:58:46 PM PST by Pelham
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To: codeword; Okiegolddust
just obfuscation.

I agree with you, Codeword. St Augustine's City is clearly a metaphore for the Western Civilization, which has a common language philosophically but not linguistically, and the need for genetic cohesion is pure invention of Williamson's.

16 posted on 12/26/2001 9:01:01 AM PST by annalex
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