Culture and restraint

Introduction.--Zion against Greece--the problem stated.--The aesthetic ideal--culture.--Defects of the aesthetic ideal.--Culture as religion.--The perfect man.--The ascetic ideal--restraint.--The origin and growth of asceticism.--The failure of the ascetic ideal.--A mediaeval conception of sainthood.--The physical treatment of the spiritual life.--The teaching of Jesus on asceticism.--The Christian solution