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English tnins. lation is here reprinted, was af mongthe most famous writings of the most illustrious writer of his age. Few people now read Erasmus; he has become for the world in geneial a somewhat vague name. Only by some effort of the historical imagination is it possible for those who are not professed scholars and students to realize the enormous force which he was at a critical period in the... More

English tnins. lation is here reprinted, was af mongthe most famous writings of the most illustrious writer of his age. Few people now read Erasmus; he has become for the world in geneial a somewhat vague name. Only by some effort of the historical imagination is it possible for those who are not professed scholars and students to realize the enormous force which he was at a critical period in the history of civilization. The free institutions and the material progress of the modem world have alike their roots in humanism. Humanism as a movement of the human mind culminated in the age, and even in a sense in the person, of Erasmus. I ts brilliant flower was of an earlier period; its fruits developed and matured later; but it was in his time, and in him, that the firuit set. The earlier sixteenth century is not so romantic as its predecessors, nor so rich in solid achievement as others that have followed it. As in some orchard when spring is over, the blossom lies withered on the grass, and the fruit has long to vait before it can ripen on the boughs. Yet
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