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Updated: July 23, 2025
But his combination of vast learning with keen observation, of acuteness of remark with a lively fancy, of genial wit with a perfect good sense his union of as sincere a piety and as profound a zeal for rational religion as Colet's with a dispassionate fairness towards older faiths, a large love of secular culture, and a genial freedom and play of mind this union was his own, and it was through this that Erasmus embodied for the Teutonic peoples the quickening influence of the New Learning during the long scholar-life which began at Paris and ended amidst sorrow and darkness at Basle.
One morning a lady summons him to her house to design a robe which she is embroidering, and as he bends with her maidens over their toil his harp hung upon the wall sounds without mortal touch tones which the excited ears around frame into a joyous antiphon. From this scholar-life Dunstan was called to a wider sphere of activity towards the close of Eadmund's reign.
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