"[...] This sublunary sphere appeared no longer as a vale of tears, a place of painful pilgrimage to another world, but as affording opportunity for pagan delights, for fame and beauty and adventure. The long centuries of asceticism were forgotten in a riot of art and poetry and pleasure. [...] the Middle Ages did not die without a struggle [...] but in the main the old terrors had ceased to be terrifying, and the new liberty of the spirit was found intoxicating. The intoxication could not last, but for a moment it shut out fear. In this moment of joyful liberation the modern world was born." —Bertrand Russell
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 02:23:51 +0000
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