. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. im, that he seemed already acrossthe threshold of the new century ; he was so stronglyimbued with its spirit, that he may be said to be itsinitiator But whenever he tried to reason upon andexplain the marvellous gift that was solely derived fromhis own greatness of soul, he fell back into the past, andlost in the mazes of scholasticism, could not even comprelhend himself. In him, therefore, as in his age as a wholewe behold the past and future in mortal conflict. The past ■ This statement is made by De Thou. Vide Libri Histoire rlc,ciences mathematiques
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. im, that he seemed already acrossthe threshold of the new century ; he was so stronglyimbued with its spirit, that he may be said to be itsinitiator But whenever he tried to reason upon andexplain the marvellous gift that was solely derived fromhis own greatness of soul, he fell back into the past, andlost in the mazes of scholasticism, could not even comprelhend himself. In him, therefore, as in his age as a wholewe behold the past and future in mortal conflict. The past ■ This statement is made by De Thou. Vide Libri Histoire rlc,ciences mathematiques ; » Cardani, De vita propria. As o °™ eader may refer to Libris account of him, and also tc, hi,n,™ T|Pon « Magia. See Carriers Die phhosoph see WelLschauunehiloseoph;etl0nSZelt (StUttgart l847):nd Res GescWchieTe? SAVON ARO LAS LITE AND TIMES. us still firmly established, but it is withered at the root Slid losing its grasp of reality, while the future IS:ing forth vigorous young shoots, and claiming theworld as its CHAPTER VII.
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