Excerpt from History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From Thales to the Present Time In the period at which we have now arrived, increased industrial and commercial activity resulted in an increase of material prosperity; cities arose, and a class of free citizens came into existence; the State was consolidated, and at the courts, among the nobility and among the citizens, notwithstanding the continued existence of wars and feuds, leisure was found for the adornment of life by the arts of peace. At the same time and by a parallel ...
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Excerpt from History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From Thales to the Present Time In the period at which we have now arrived, increased industrial and commercial activity resulted in an increase of material prosperity; cities arose, and a class of free citizens came into existence; the State was consolidated, and at the courts, among the nobility and among the citizens, notwithstanding the continued existence of wars and feuds, leisure was found for the adornment of life by the arts of peace. At the same time and by a parallel movement there grew up a secular form of culture, as dis tinguished from the previous prevailingly religious type. Poets extolled force and beauty; the manly courage which approves itself in severe contests, the delicacy of feeling which is conspicuous in the raptures and pains of love, the fervor of devotion, the fire of hate, the nobility of loyalty, the ignominy of treason - every natural and moral feeling which is developed in the society of man with man, found expression in secular poetry in terms fitted deeply to move the heart. This humane culture opened up also the sense for ancient poetry and for ancient conceptions of the world and of human affairs. The love for ancient art and literature - a sentiment which had never been entirely extinguished in Italy - was the first to be reawakened there; with the struggles of political parties was connected an intelligent interest in early Roman history; the social life of the rising burgher-class and Of the noble families who attained to wealth and power provided the leisure and cultivated the taste necessary for a resuscitation of the extant remains of ancient culture. The attention paid to Roman literature called forth the desire to know more Of the literature of the Greeks, a knowledge which in Greece itself was still largely preserved. In the hope of satisfy ing this desire, Greece had been visited long before the approach of the Turks and the capture of Constantinople (1453) had led to the emigration of Greek scholars to Italy; the Greek Muses (says Heeren, Geech. Des Stadiums der saws. I/l'tt sei't dem Wiederaufie ban der Wisserwohaften, Vol. I., p. 283) would have been brought to Italy, if they had not fled thither for refuge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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