The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Politically Incorrect Guides) (61 page)

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Odyssey
(Homer)
 
Oedipus
 
Oedipus at Colonus
(Sophocles)
 
Old Testament
 
Oliver Twist
(Dickens)
 
The Omega Man
 
On Christian Doctrine
(Augustine)
 
On the Life of Moses
(Philo Judaeus)
 
On the Nature of Things
(Lucretius)
 
On the Waterfront
 
Orange County Register
 
Oration on the Dignity of Man
(Pico della Mirandola)
 
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
 
Orestes
 
Origin of the Species
(Darwin)
 
Orwell, George
 
Otto the Great
 
Ouranus
 
“The Oven-Bird” (Frost)
 
Ovid
 
P
 
Paedogogus
(Clement of Alexandria)
 
paganism; God of Abraham and; love and; Middle Ages and; nature and; Renaissance and; salvation and; State and
 
Paine, Thomas
 
Paracelsis
 
Paradise Lost
(Milton)
 
Paradiso
(Dante)
 
Pascal, Blaise
 
Pasteur, Louis
 
paterfamilias
 
patriarchy; ancient Greece and; Rome and
 
patriotism. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Enlightenment and; Rome and
 
Paul, Saint
 
Paul III, Pope
 
peace. of God; Islam and
 
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
 
Pearl
 
pederasty
 
Pelagianism
 
Penn, William
 
Pensées
(Pascal)
 
perfection of man
 
Pericles
 
Perkins, Frances
 
Persians
 
Persian War
 
The Persian Wars
(Herodotus)
 
pesticides
 
Peter, Saint
 
Petrarch
 
Petronius
 
Phaedra
 
Phaedrus
(Plato)
 
Philip of Macedon
 
Philoctetes
 
Philo Judaeus
 
philosophy. ancient Greece and; birth of; faith and; God, understanding of and; modern; natural; Renaissance and
 
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
 
Pieper, Joseph
 
Pietà
(Michelangelo)
 
piety. ancient Greece and; Catholic Church and; natural law and; Rome and
 
Pilgrim Fathers; Enlightenment and
 
Pill.
See
birth control
 
Pisistratus
 
Pius II, Pope
 
Pius III, Pope
 
Pius XI, Pope
 
Pius XII, Pope
 
The Pivot of Civilization
(Sanger)
 
Planned Parenthood
 
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
 
Plato; Academy of; democracy and; family and; good and; justice and; love and; materialism and; mathematics and
 
Pliny the Younger
 
Plumb, J. H.
 
Plutarch
 
poetry.
See
literature
 
polis
 
political correctness. destruction of; patriotism and; twentieth century and; Western civilization and
 
political science
 
Pol Pot
 
Polybius
 
Polynices
 
pornography
 
“Porphyria’s Lover” (Browning)
 
Porsena
 
Portia
 
Poteat, Hubert
 
The Power and the Glory
(Greene)
 
The Prelude
(Wordsworth)
 
Priam, King of Troy
 
The Prince
(Machiavelli)
 
printing press
 
progress; Enlightenment and; nineteenth century and; science of; twentieth century and
 
Prohibition
 
Prometheus
 
Prometheus Unbound
(Shelley)
 
Protagoras
 
Protestant Reformation
 
Ptolemy
 
public education. democracy and; diversity and; effeminacy and; God and; Middle Ages and
 
Punic Wars
 
Puritan revolt of 1642
 
Puritans
 
Pythagoras
 
Q
 
Quakers
 
The Quest for the Holy Grail
 
Quintus Fabius Maximus
 
Quod apostolici muneris
(Leo XIII)
 
R
 
racialism
 
racism
 
Raleigh, Walter
 
Ramses II, Pharaoh
 
Raphael
 
Rasselas
(Johnson)
 
reason; Aristotle and; Enlightenment and; eternal law and; faith and; feelings and; limits of; Middle Ages and; passions and
 
The Reason of Government
(Milton)
 
Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Burke)
 
Reign of Terror
 
relativism
 
religion. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; freedom of; individualism and; mystery; Renaissance and; Rome and; science and; twentieth century and.
See also
Christianity
 
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
(Dawson)
 
Rembrandt
 
Renaissance. art and; authority, collapse of and; Christianity and; community and; Enlightenment and; humanism and; individualism and; man, fall of and; man, glory of and; Middle Ages and; misrepresentations of; modernity and; myths about; nominalism and; paganism, resurgent and; philosophy and; religion and; science and; secularism and; witches and
 
Republic
(Plato)
 
Rerum Novarum
(Leo XIII)
 
Revolutionary War
 
Rhea
 
Ricci, Matteo
 
Richard III
(Shakespeare)
 
Richard of Saint Victor
 
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Coleridge)
 
The Ring and the Book
(Browning)
 
Robespierre
 
Robinson, John
 
Rockwell, Norman
 
Romanticism
 
Romanticism, Romantics. Browning, Robert and; cult of the child and; Dickens, Charles and; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ad; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor and; Leo XIII, Pope and; man, worship of and; nature, worship of by; women and.
See also
nineteenth century
 
Rome. as American model; anti-democratic features of; art and; ascetism and; Christianity and; citizenship in; civic responsibility and; conservatism of; democracy and; fall of; family and; homosexuality and; love and; manual labor and; patriarchy and; patriotism and; peace through strength and; piety and; religion and; Senate of; slavery and; State and; taxation and; tradition and; women and
 
Romulus Augustulus
 
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
 
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 
Rugby Chapel
(Arnold)
 
Ruskin, John
 
Russell, Bertrand
 
Russia
 
S
 
Sacred and Profane Love
(Titian)
 
Saint Teresa in Ecstasy
(Bernini)
 
Sallust
 
salvation; Enlightenment and; faith and; God and; grace and; Jesus and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; time and; by works
 
Sanger, Margaret
 
Satyricon
(Petronius)
 
Savonarola, Girolamo
 
The Scarlet Letter
(Hawthorne)
 
The Scarlet Pimpernel
(Orczy)
 
School of Athens
(Raphael)
 
Schumacher, E. F.
 
science. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; eugenic; God and; Middle Ages and; natural; nineteenth century and; Old Testament God and; of progress; religion and; Renaissance and
 
scientism
 
Scipio
 
Scopes “monkey trial”
 
Scott, Sir Walter
 
Scotus, John
 
Second Treatise of Government
(Locke)
 
Second Vatican Council
 
secularism. Founding Fathers and; Renaissance and
 
Seneca
 
sentimentalism
 
Septuagint
 
Sexual Revolution
 
Shakespeare, William
 
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
 
Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well Being
(Spinoza)
 
Sidney, Phillip
 
Silent Spring
 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 
slavery. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Jesus and; Rome and
 
social atomism
 
socialism
 
Socrates
 
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
 
Song of Myself
(Whitman)
 
Sophists
 
Sophocles
 
The Sound of Music
 
Southey, Robert

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