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Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.
Society cannot bear anarchy? Are there any counterexamples?
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. The claim of the Church to spiritual leadership could never be made wholly credible to all its communicants when it was founded in material wealth.
