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Updated: May 12, 2025
I can remember one particular afternoon when there was a curious mistiness through which the western sunlight passed, turning everything into a strange, dull gold. It was a light that suppressed all that was crude and commercial near at hand and emphasised the medievalism of the place by throwing out spires and towers in softly tinted silhouettes.
But the forces at Verdun are about equal, and the French have the advantage of position. The Germans are committing suicide." "Humbug! They know what they are doing. They are the greatest soldiers in Europe." "Led by men with bone heads." "By great scientists." "By the traditional rules of medievalism. By bald headed vultures in spectacles with brains like penny-in the-slot machines.
The impress Günzburg left upon Hebrew literature is of special importance. Until his time, despite the examples set by Satanov and Levin, Hebrew was stamped with the hallmark of medievalism.
It treated questions of religious policy which touched the majority of men more nearly then than now; with moral problems calculated to interest the mind of an age still tinged with medievalism; with philosophical theories of human and divine love.
"It's simply medievalism back again, it seems to me." "Exactly!" said the other. "You have hit it at last. It is medievalism that is to say, human nature with faith and reverence, and without cant." He paused again, and his eyes twinkled. "You know honours and privileges are worth nothing if every one has them. If we all wore crowns, the kings would go bareheaded."
A thousand bad precedents that keep us bound to medievalism would go with the law-books: there would be a chance to pronounce, here and now as human beings, on such things as capital punishment; which remains, though we do not recognise the fact, solely because it has been in vogue all these centuries, and is a habit hard to break with.
One may say that the reactions are somewhat mixed. Quite so. At this moment we are beaten upon by numberless reforms, both "radical" and "reactionary." Materialism, democracy, rationalism, anarchy contending against Medievalism of twenty sorts, and strange mysticisms out of the East.
Take sex out of man and you have something worth while. God must have been short of expedients when God, in sex, conceived sex. It certainly looks as if the Divine fell down this time. As if infinity was at the end of its tether. As if the adept creator for once was caught napping, or for once botched a job. So we had my pious friend. And we had medievalism. And we had the ascetics.
Their minds were thus directed backwards to a past civilisation which, in the ardour of new discovery, and in the reaction against medievalism, they enthroned as ideal; and a new authority was set up, the authority of ancient writers. In general speculation the men of the Renaissance followed the tendencies and adopted many of the prejudices of Greek philosophy.
Thorpe ate breakfast at the depot and wandered slowly up Jefferson Avenue to Woodward, a strange piece of our country's medievalism in modern surroundings. He was so occupied with his own thoughts that for some time he remained unconscious of the attention he was attracting. Then, with a start, he felt that everyone was staring at him.
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