Excerpt from The Unity of History: The Rede Lecture Delivered in the Senate-House Before the University of Cambridge on Friday, May 24, 1872
The revival of learning in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries marks, as is agreed on all hands, one of the great epochs in the history of the mind of man. It is easy to exaggerate the extent of the revival itself; it is easy to dwell too exclusively on the bright side of its results; but the undoubted fact still remains by. None the less. That age was an age when the spirit of man cast away trammels by which it had long been fettered it was an age when men open ed their eyes to light against which they had been closed for ages. A new world was opened; or more truly, a world which men never had forgotten, but which had become to them a.
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