THE AGE OF FAITH IN THE WEST—(Concluded).
EFFECT OF THE EASTERN OR MILITARY ATTACK.—GENERAL REVIEW OF THE AGE OF FAITH.
The Fall of Constantinople.—Its momentary Effect on the Italian System.
General Review of the intellectual Condition in the Age of Faith.—Supernaturalism and its Logic spread all over Europe.—It is destroyed by the Jews and Arabians.—Its total Extinction.
The Jewish Physicians.—Their Acquirements and Influence.—Their Collision with the Imposture-medicine of Europe.—Their Effect on the higher Classes.—Opposition to them.
Two Impulses, the Intellectual and Moral, operating against the Mediæval state of Things.—Downfall of the Italian System through the intellectual Impulse from the West and the moral from the North.—Action of the former through Astronomy.—Origin of the moral Impulse.—Their conjoint irresistible Effect.—Discovery of the state of Affairs in Italy.—The Writings of Machiavelli.—What the Church hadactually done.
Entire Movement of the Italian System determined from a consideration of the four Revolts against it.
APPROACH OF THE AGE OF REASON IN EUROPE.