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. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...worked out by the sustained and constant efforts of the generations of the Middle Ages. The intellectual life of the world at that time may be likened to the top of a ladder, each rung of which was occupied by a generation. The luscious fruits which ripen on the tree of civilization are the last results of an ...
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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. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...worked out by the sustained and constant efforts of the generations of the Middle Ages. The intellectual life of the world at that time may be likened to the top of a ladder, each rung of which was occupied by a generation. The luscious fruits which ripen on the tree of civilization are the last results of an innumerable series of patient and disinterested efforts; they represent the succession of generations that have disappeared. Such being the true view of the Renaissance, it is amusing to read the contention of many writers that this imposing phenomenon was due to the fact that Greek professors, driven from the Orient by the Turkish invasions, happened to bring to amazed Western Europe the literary treasures of antiquity. These treasures of antiquity were in possession of Western Europe before the coming of the professors; from the professors it took but a small part of these treasures at a time when, by its own efforts, it had become capable of appreciating them. The revival of ancient literature in Western Europe is a consequence, not the origin, of the Renaissance. The Renaissance leads some to imitate morals of pagan antiquity. But all wealth--material or intellectual--has its dangers. Material riches enervate the heart by voluptuousness, intellectual riches puff up the mind with pride. And when the Gospel says: "Woe to the rich!," we may believe that these hard words apply not only to those who bend under the load of gold but also to those who succumb beneath the weight of knowledge. Neither the one nor the other can enter the Kingdom of God, if they are not poor in spirit, that is, if they do not use their treasures for the higher ends of charity. And I am convinced that it was especially to those who have attained the heights of...
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