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

"Most of the basic ideas in the Renaissance view of history are still clearly present in the controversies in the latt…"

"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…"

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