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. 1893 Excerpt: ...higher classes. Such a bishop as Roger of Salisbury, who fought in the field, acted as justiciary, was architect and engineer, and administered a diocese, was assuredly the more capable man, if he was not the better churchman, for these qualifications. Pass to thought, and the same fact repeats itself. All knowledge in ...
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ...higher classes. Such a bishop as Roger of Salisbury, who fought in the field, acted as justiciary, was architect and engineer, and administered a diocese, was assuredly the more capable man, if he was not the better churchman, for these qualifications. Pass to thought, and the same fact repeats itself. All knowledge in the Middle Ages was encyclopedic. It started from a few principles, it embraced comparatively few facts, and a single lifetime was sufficient to comprehend it. Scholars in special sciences have replaced the universal monarchs of learning. The belief that all knowledge is connected by certain first principles is still possible. But no man now can believe in his own power to codify all thought and harmonize the contradictions of facts. We are richer by solid experience, and only poorer by a dream; but it was a dream that gave beauty and dignity to the life of Roger Bacon. 12 It is in their finer perceptions of moral beauty and greatness that the apology of the Middle Ages must be found. They were times of rough men building up order and law by painful efforts rather than by harmonious insight, and often dragging the fabric out of shape by its buttresses. The excessive legislation of Church and State produced a harvest of rank and habitual crime which can only be paralleled in a few exceptional phases of modern history. The early proscription of pagan thought confined all but a few schoolmen and legists to the literature of their own times, so that Tacitus was supplanted by Bede, Alexander transformed into a knight-errant, and Virgil thought of as a magician. The great forms of Greek art, the epic, the tragedy, and the idyll, were without influence on the trouveur or writer of gestes. Yet, 13 if their structure is often cumbrous and grotesque, t...
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