An Address Delivered At the Opening of the Library of Christian Hall Chestnut H
An Address Delivered At the Opening of the Library of Christian Hall Chestnut H
M Russell Martin Russell Thayer
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To this system of transcription methodically and industriously carried on in the religious houses we are indebted for almost every- thing that remains to us of ancient learning. From Constantinople, from Mount Athos, from the Monasteries of the Morea, Euboea, Crete, Ca- labria, Naples, and other countries were derived those precious manuscripts which convey to us almost the only knowledge we possess of ancient literature. Much has been written about the monks and monastic institutions. Whatever... faults may have belonged to them or to their religious system we may say of them, nevertheless, that I 2 AN ADDRESS. without the monks the dark ages would have been dark indeed. * About the year 1440, in the quaint Dutch town Haarlem, lived an old man named Lau- rence Coster, of meditative disposition and soli- tary habits. In his afternoon rambles he was accustomed to sit down in the woods and to cut alphabets out of the bark of trees for the amuse- ment of his grandchildren. One day having shaped the letters with more care than usual, he wrapped them in a piece of parchment.
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