"The men of the Renaissance were in a peculiar situation... What they saw behind them... were the peaks of classical a…"

"Ever since the French revolution there has developed a vicious, cretinizing tendency to consider a genius (apart from…"

"[E]normous activity, the new spirit... had come... through the Renaissance. ...[A] new authority appeared... independ…"

"History knew a midnight, which we may estimate at about the year 1000 A.D., when the human race lost the arts and sci…"

"All the art since the Renaissance seemed too men-oriented. I liked (the) object quality. An Egyptian pyramid, a Sung …"

"The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being tran…"

"Neither Watt's steam engine nor Whitney's standardized parts really started the Industrial Revolution, although each …"

"The attitude of man toward the non-human environment has differed profoundly at different times. The Greeks, with the…"

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelan…"

"Colonel Kyd, an Englishman, had the following to say regarding general surgical skill in the subcontinent: (In) chiru…"