This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...studies into Germany, these men are not given over unreservedly to classical ideals; they are disposed to eliminate from the list of Greek and T.atin authors those whosp works are in any respect imbuedjwithJin aulLChristian. spit'; their interest is not primarily in the works themselves, but in their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...studies into Germany, these men are not given over unreservedly to classical ideals; they are disposed to eliminate from the list of Greek and T.atin authors those whosp works are in any respect imbuedjwithJin aulLChristian. spit'; their interest is not primarily in the works themselves, but in their adaptation for Christian purposes. 'HtlHiaui&tb uf this description" were conscious of a divided allegiance, and it is impossible to resist the conviction that their arguments in favor of the new learning are intended to serve quite as much for self justification as for the persuasion of their readers. It is quite in the nature of things that with these men youth is the period of rationalism, and that as they advance toward the inevitable solution, in their individual cases, of the great problem of the future, their conservatism asserts itself and they recoil from the enterprises of their earlier days. Many of them, in fact, revert to a condition of total obscurantism, and pass the evening of life in retirement and religious meditation, doing penance for the literary aberrations of their youth. In Germany the theological group seems to include a great part of the well-known men of letters. There are several reasons for this! It is not strange that in a country where learn ing had been almost exclusively an affair of the clergy, the first recruits for humanism shouI3Bedrawn from a class whose earlier impressions rendered a separation from conventional theological ideas a matter of great difficulty. Then, too, the German mind, perhaps because less composite in origin, and less subject to extraneous influences in its national development, seems to have shown a relatively great tenacity in respect to a small number of ideas, of which the...
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