Great Thousand Years Written in the Year 1908 And First Printed in Pax the Mag
Great Thousand Years Written in the Year 1908 And First Printed in Pax the Mag
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942
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There is a difference between the individu- alism of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and that of the fifteenth and those that have followed, that is hard to put into words, but is distinct nevertheless and sig- nificant of the difference that lies between Mediaevalism and modernism. And with this brilliant development of personality went a spirit of real communism quite different to the bastard thing that now bears the name. Everywhere, after the great cataclysm of the Dark Ages, men... tended towards each other, impelled by a spirit of solidarity; knights and serfs betook them- selves to the somewhat mitigated protection of the barons; these coagulated into small nationalities that coalesced and formed kingdoms that grew into empires. Cities gathered themselves together and won their privileges as communes; craftsmen, artifi- cers and workmen banded themselves into guilds and fraternities, merchants into great trading corporations; scholars united to [31] THE GREAT THOUSAND YEARS form colleges and universities, and every- where through the length and breadth of Europe, setting the pace and leading the wa.
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