Capitolo 3
industry, his/her absence of usury in some form and his/her solo sense of
comparative values, were shot through and I cross with religion both
in faith and practice. The Catholicism was universally and implicitly
approved. Monasticism had ransomed Europe from the barbarism and Cluny
you/he/she had freed the Church from the joke of German imperialism. This
unity and the immanence of religion gave a society consistence
otherwise not obtainable, and it poured his/her vitality in every form of
human thought and action.
It was the Catholicism and the spirit of feudalism that you/he/she has preserved men
from the dangers inherent in the immense individualism of the time.
With this powerful and penetrating cooerdinating forces men they were sure
to go around as far as them they liked in the line of the individuality,
while today, for example the strength that unifies of a ground of common ownership and
vital religion that is absent and nothing has been offered to take
his/her place, the result of a similar tendency is egotism and the anarchy.
These things happened in the end in the case of Mediaevalism when
the power and the influence of religion started once to weaken, and
the Renaissance and Reform dissolved the cloth of an it unified
society. Since then in then it became necessary to bring out some order of
the spiritual one, intellectual and physical chaos through the
question of arbitrary strength, and so absolutism entered
government, the tyranny of the new intellectualism, the Catholic
Investigation and the Puritanical Theocracy.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the equilibrium is however,
justly preserved, although it was but an unstable equilibrium, and
therefore during the time of Abelard we find the widest difference
of speculation and the liberty of thought for which continuous not prevented
more than one hundred years. The mystical school of the abbey of Street
Victor in Paris follows a line (perhaps more almost straight of
all although you/he/she was submerged by the intellectual strength and the vivacity
of the Scholastics) with Hugh of St. Victor as his greater