1928. The chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston in January and February 1928. The aim of the book is to make clear the importance of certain great men and of certain great movements in thought and culture during the early Christian centuries. Church and Pagan The Problem; Church and Pagan The Solution; St. Ambrose the Mystic; St. Jerome the Humanist; Boethius, the First of the Scholastics; The New Poetry; New Education; St. Augustine and Dante.