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"High Scholars of the Western World"<br />

Christian era. University life in these great Irish centers<br />

was free from the excesses that were habitual in pagan<br />

Athens, but there was the same plenitude of high spirits,<br />

of eager ambition, of thirst after new knowledge, of<br />

reverence for great learning and lofty character, of fierce<br />

joy in intellectual conflict that marked generous youth in<br />

Athens and Rome as in the medieval universities that<br />

succeeded the establishment of those in Ireland. 1<br />

iSee Healy, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars; Burton, History of<br />

Scotland, I, 254 seq.; Joyce, Social History, I, Ch. XI, 417 seq.; Skene, Celtic<br />

Scotland, II, 75, 419-63; Reeves, Life of St. Columba, Adamnan, passim;<br />

Stokes, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Ser. 5, passim.

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