The Development of the Associative Principle During the Middle Ages, 3 Lectures - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ...?E resume, my friends, although at a lengthened interval, our inquiry into the development of the Associative Principle in the Middle Ages; and having attempted to place before you the more prominent features--historical, economical, and traditionary--of the monastic bodies and the trading fraternities, we now purpose (treating the subject in manner as heretofore) to direct your attention to the third important aspect of this principle, viz.:--the rise and progress, the organization and economy of the great Military Brotherhoods of that period,--repeating the wish which we before expressed, that an hour may be not unprofiably spent, and an increased desire awakened in some of you to enquire more fully into a department of literature, upon which a large amount of labour, industry, and research are now being directed. If my friends--more particularly such of you who were not present at the reading of the preceding papers of this 62 REMEMBRANCE OF series--should object to the reproduction and pourtrayal of manners and of scenes which pertain to an age happily passed away, and which doubtless exhibits much that is barbarous and puerile, false in true morality, and unsound in political and economic science, let me in the outset remind you how much the state of society which we have now under review was mixed with spontaneous and independent good, and often corrected by it;--how much the misconduct of all parties was the result of less happy circumstances than those in which the objectors are placed;--how much the contemplation of these more ennobling virtues which ever and anon present themselves to the enquirer tends to foster a spirit of comprehensive patriotism, by making us proud of our country, and preserving in ever-enduring blazon whatever was praisewort...

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