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I ntroductory. (a) The Small Extent of Christendom. Smaller than it onc haa been. The Mohammedan power checked in the West, bu? 5ncroaohing from the East. Kinship between Christians, Mohammedsns, and Jews, but they hate one another I (f) The Signs of New Life in Cliristendom. Influence of the crusaders. I nventions. Fall of Constantinople. Revival of learning. Printing. .. .. -3 (c) The Widening of Christendom. Moors driven out of Spain. Discovery of A merica. New way to East Indies. Men sminds prepared for great events. .. .. -4 (d) The New Era one of Progress in Civilization. What civilization is. The old Roman civilization. I ts main vice Modern civilization. I ts strength. The crisis of the struggle between the old and the new order of things. Plan of this book. ... 5CHAPTER II. THE POWERS BELONGING TO THE OLD ORDER OP THINGS, AND GOING OUT. (a) The Ecclesiastical System. The Ecclesiastical Empire. Rome its capital. Independent of the civil power. The monks. Power of the ecclesiastical system, by its influence over the people, by its wealth, by the monopoly of learning and political influence, which all centred in Rome. This Empire will be broken up in the Era 8b) The Scholastic System. The learned world talked and wrote in Latin, and belonged to the clergy. This made learning scholastic, shackled science, and religion also, and kept them from the common people. Necessity of mental freedom. The Universities. Students pass from one to another. The result of this in the days of Wiclif. Will be repeated in the new Era.
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