. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. e it for granted thatEuropean rule and a sort of liberal Christian-ity are destined to spread over the wholeworld. Few people seem to realize howrecent a thing is this European was only as the fifteenth century drew to itsclose that any indications of the real vitalityof Western Europe became clearly apparent. 1 Renascence here means rebirth, and it is appliedto the recovery of the entire Western world. It is notto be confused with the Renaissance, an educa-tional, literary, and artistic revival that went on in
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. e it for granted thatEuropean rule and a sort of liberal Christian-ity are destined to spread over the wholeworld. Few people seem to realize howrecent a thing is this European was only as the fifteenth century drew to itsclose that any indications of the real vitalityof Western Europe became clearly apparent. 1 Renascence here means rebirth, and it is appliedto the recovery of the entire Western world. It is notto be confused with the Renaissance, an educa-tional, literary, and artistic revival that went on inItaly and the Western world affected by Italy duringthe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Renais-sance was only a part of the Renascence of Renaissance was a revival due to the exhmnationof classical art and learning ; it was but one factor inthe very much larger and more complicated resurrec-tion of European capacity and vigour, with which weare dealing in this chapter. 386 THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY EUROPE air t?ic tunc oP tkc TALL of CaMSTANTINOPLE-. Our history is now approaching our owntimes, and our study becomes more and morea study of the existing state of affairs. TheEuropean or Europeanized system in whichthe reader is living, is the same system thatwe see developing in the crumpled-up, Mon-gol-threatened Europe of the early fifteenthcentury. Its problems then were the embry-onic form of the problems of to-day. It isimpossible to discuss that time without dis-cussing our own time. We become politicalin spite of ourselves. Politics without his-tory has no root, said Sir J. R. Seeley ; history without politics has no fruit. Let us try, with as much detachment as wecan achieve, to discover what the forces werethat were dividing and holding back theenergies of Europe during this tremendousoutbreak of the Mongol peoples, and how weare to explain the accumulation of mentaland physical energy that undoubtedly wenton during this phase of apparent retrocession,and
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