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Excerpt from Science and Medieval Thought: The Harveian Oration Delivered Before, the Royal College of Physicians, October 18
The eager and passionate hearts of many peoples. Lincoln and Wells, Amiens and Chartres, Florence and Assisi tell us of the glory of that vision; and bear witness of its ?ight for with Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey and Newton the Middle Ages themselves became a phantom, and again the Spirit of a new world appeared. Thus in the phases of time the world dies and is born again; fulfilling greater destinies. But the new are born in the cold bed of the elder worlds, and the young life is chilled, or a lustier offspring turns unnaturally to curse the dead; so in their decrepitude lay the Middle Ages upon modern life; and the Middle Ages were accursed, until certain pious men sought to reanimate their vestments and their formulas, and to set the hands back on the dial of the.
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