Reading (2)

“And after the fall of the Empire it was the
great monasteries…that were the only
remaining islands of intellectual life amidst
the returning flood of barbarism which once
again threatened to submerge Western
Christendom.
“Ninety-nine out of a hundred monasteries
could be burnt and the monks killed or
driven out, and yet the whole tradition
could be reconstituted from the one
survivor,.. (Dawson, p.72)
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