Capitolo 83
dispersion of European good in the whole England. We feel of continually
present, consisting of specialized manual art passing from the civilized one,
south to the ill-mannered one and Barbaric north. Wilfrith and Benedict traveled
a lot of times to and from Rome, widening their his/her own chins from relationships
with Roman society, and returning load with jobs of art or manuscripts
of value. Baeda knew the writings of the whole head
classical poets and philosophers that him he/she often quotes. We am only able
you compare the results of such relationships to those that in our his/her own duration
you/he/she has proceeded from the opening of Japan to the western ideas, or of the
Hawaiian islands to European civilisation and European missionaries. The
School English that jumped above soon to Rome and the Latin schools that
it jumped above soon to York and Canterbury, it is precise equivalents of the
instructive movements in both those countries in which we see ours really
day. The monks were to learn Latin and Greek "as they learned
them own language", and so the key of the whole literature would be given
and the whole science that the world has possessed then.
The convents became so the truths manufacturing, agricultural and
literary centers on a to staircase redoubt. The monks boiled down the salt of the
water sauce-holes; they copied and they illuminated manuscripts in the library; them
not withdraws painted without ill-mannered worth of them really; they raced rhines
through the marshy heath; they cultivated the ground with vigour and
success. A new culture started to occupy the earth--the culture which
form fully-developed that we now see around us. But it doesn't have to be never
forgotten that in his/her origin it is completely Roman, and not at all
Anglo-Saxon. Our people they singly appeared proper to embracing
it as the modern Polynesian and otherwise from American Indians; but
they didn't invent him to them for them. Our existing culture is not
house-cross at all; it is simply the inherited culture and it widened of
Greece and Italy.