(1) H. O. Taylor: The Mediaeval Mind, 2 vols., Macmillan Co.,
New York, 1911. (New edition, 1920.)
(2) Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 13: "Under their action (the Christian
Fathers) the peoples of Western Europe, from the eighth to the
thirteenth century, passed through a homogeneous growth, and
evolved a spirit different from that of any other period of
history--a spirit which stood in awe before its monitors divine
and human, and deemed that knowledge was to be drawn from the
storehouse of the past; which seemed to rely on everything except
its sin-crushed self, and trusted everything except its senses;
which in the actual looked for the ideal, in the concrete saw the
symbol, in the earthly Church beheld the heavenly, and in fleshly
joys discerned the devil's lures; which lived in the unreconciled
opposition between the lust and vain-glory of earth and the
attainment of salvation; which felt life's terror and its
pitifulness, and its eternal hope; around which waved concrete
infinitudes, and over which flamed the terror of darkness and the
Judgment Day."
Galen died about 200 A.D.; the high-water mark of the Renaissance, so
far as medicine is concerned, was reached in the year 1542.
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