A rough, disorderly, turbulent, greedy, cruel world, but it knew the human soul, and it knew the human heart. The ancient world had ended in a great destruction, but the sadness and emptiness of its last days compel us to feel that it was well that it should end. And the new world was a world of life, of crude force and restless energy, and from it we have received the principles and the forms of a great civilization, and the temper which is never satisfied, for there is no end to life.
Books for Reference
H. W. C. Davis, Mediaeval Europe (Home University Library).
Lord Bryce, History of Roman Empire.
Rashdall, Universities of Empire in the Middle Ages.
R. L. Poole, Illustrations of Mediaeval Thought.
Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Ages.
W. P. Ker, Epic and Romance.
FOOTNOTES:
[23] Cf. Cicero, De Legibus, i. 10-12; and Seneca, De Beneficiis, iii. 18.