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3, par. 99. ) Society was not regenerated by the genii of Wisdom. Learning to it was not as a Richelieu to France. It was through feudalism, born of piracy ; superstition born of fear; chivalry born of lust: and thro' all three, that were born of Egoism, that the prophecy which said- While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; Wheu falls the Coliseurn, Rome shall fall; And when Rome (alls— the World. — was not fulfilled. The oath the warrior took, upon doing homage to his liege lord ; the pray...er he breathed to the god of battle; the vow he made to his lady love — such were the things that made At- tila the scourge of God, Richard the Lion-hearted and Godfrey in- vincible. "In their baronial feuds and single fields What deeds of prowress unrecorded died! And love, which lent a blazon to their shiehls, With emblems well devised by amor- ous pride. Thro' all the mail of iron hearts would •rlide '' — 14 — It was the songs of the Trouba- dors, rather than the stately hex- ameters of Homer and Virgil; the glories of the Tournament, rather than the sophisms ofthe Stoic; the fanaticism of the Crusader, rather than the learning ofthe Civilian, that made it possible for humanity to emerge anew from ten centuries of crime and blood.
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