Rebirth of Europe

Excerpt from The Rebirth of Europe: A Study of the Middle Age Our modern world, with its keener sense of spiritual values, and its finer conception of personal and national responsibility, differ from the old Roman world as much as if our race had been removed bodily to Jupiter or Saturn. As much? Better to say more: for with the merely physical transfer all the old ways and habits of thought would have been retained, and perhaps intensified; as was the case with the Greek colonists, who made their new homes in Asia even more Grecian than Athens itself. But the modern world presents a wholly different view of life from that which prevailed in the classic age, and a different outlook toward the future. No doubt some remnants of the old customs and the old spirit still linger, especially in the countries that cling to their kings and kinglets, for the past has more "dead hands" than the octopus has live ones, but they are losing their grip with every new-coming generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.