Capitolo 2
you/he/she would have been brought in language of urbaner; and, as I grow old, I tighten me from
similar anything to invective, also in that controversy amounts.
Therefore I don't now have anything to alter in the _Emancipation of
Massachusetts_, seen how history although it is probable that I soften his/her sourness
rather, here and there; but when I come to consider him as philosophy me,
it is frightened to observe the opening from which it separates the my present epoch
soon the middle life.
The last generation was strongly Darwinian in the sense that has accepted,
almost as a dogma of the religious faith, the theory that the human civilization
it is a progressive evolution, while firmly moving himself/herself/itself on the whole toward
perfection, from a lower to an intellectual and taller airplane, and, as a
necessary part of his/her progress, developing a taller degree of mental
vigor. I don't have proper need you observe that every belief in the democracy as an end
solution of social ills, every trust in education as a means to
reaching to the universal justice and every hope of approximating to the rule
by law moral in the administration of law, it was kept to hinge on this
great fundamental dogma that, it followed, it was almost cruel to
you deny, or also to doubt. On the first page of my book, I observe so, as
if it were axiomatic, that, to a determined moment, toward the opening of the
sixteenth century, the burst of "Europe from his/her numbness of mediaeval in the
the shine of the Renaissance", and further on me supposes, as an equally same-
evident axiom, that the liberty of thought was the great one of the one permanent advance
what western civilization served as the whole agony and shedding of blood of the
Reform. Separately together from the fact that I should doubt if,
of year 1919, some intelligent and cultured men would be tilted to
maintains that the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, as contrasted
with the nineteenth one, centuries of intellectual numbness, that in which it frightens me
these paragraphs are the satisfied assumption of itself of the finality of mine