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what we arc now wishing to insist on is that precisely by
the double inroad
and through this great unifying event, viz.
of Ae were the negative forces, concurring with others to
sustain a movement once begun, but incapable of giving the
original impulse. What was the active, the affirmative, force
which effected for the scholastic monks that unity and scn-e of
common purposes which had been effected for the ('.reeks by
udden development of a Grecian interest opposed to a
IVr-ian,
of a civilized ink-rest, under Midden peril, opposed
to the barbarism of the universal planet
? What wa> there,
for the race- of monkish schoolmen laboring through three
centuries, in the nature of a known palpable interest, which
could balance so grand a principle-
of union and of effort as
this acknowledged guardian-hip of civilization had suddenly
unfolded, like a banner, for tl
during the infancy of
i:
What could there be c\ Tandeur?
* It is \vcll toKivr unit v to our grandest remembrances by oinm- tin^thcm,
as many as can be, with the same centre. Pericles died in the year 429