upgrowth

Updated: May 14, 2025

Of the Renascence, that "new birth" of the world for I cling to a word so eminently expressive of a truth that historians of our day seem inclined to forget or to deny of that regeneration of mankind through the sudden upgrowth of intellectual liberty, Lambeth was in England the shrine. With the Reformation which followed it Lambeth, as we shall see, had little to do.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy