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"It was inevitable" (the anti-Catholic historian proceeds to admit) "thatthe presence of uncultured though superior men should accelerate thedecline of arts in the society which they thus conquered. It is further tobe deplored that their simpler and native virtues were contaminated by thearts of the Roman clergy and that in some measure the official religionof Rome captured their noble souls; for that official religion permittedthe poison of the Roman decline to affect all the European mind--ev...en theGerman mind--for many centuries. But at the same time this evil effect wascounter-balanced by the ineradicable strength and virtues of the Northernbarbaric blood. This sacred Teutonic blood it was which brought intoWestern Europe the subtlety of romantic conceptions, the true lyric touchin poetry, the deep reverence which was (till recently) the note of theirreligion, the love of adventure in which the old civilization was lacking, and a vast respect for women. At the same time their warrior spirit evolvedthe great structure of feudalism, the chivalric model and the wholemilitary ideal of mediæval civilization.
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