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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

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There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

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If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

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But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

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It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

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We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

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Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Historian

Born: August 13th, 1823

Died: June 7th, 1910

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