History of art . held at St. Julien le Pauvre. CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 331 life, for the students met theartisans under its vaults tocommune with them in thecollective and confusedelaboration of farces, mys-tery plays, and moralities;and so, even before the uni-versity, it presented a power-ful summary of the idea ofthe century and of the im-ages of life. It formulatedfor us those turbulentschools where four or fivenations came for their in-struction, where the over-lapping elements of all kindscollaborate—the masterwith his disciples, the Greekphilosophers with the fathersof the Church,
History of art . held at St. Julien le Pauvre. CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 331 life, for the students met theartisans under its vaults tocommune with them in thecollective and confusedelaboration of farces, mys-tery plays, and moralities;and so, even before the uni-versity, it presented a power-ful summary of the idea ofthe century and of the im-ages of life. It formulatedfor us those turbulentschools where four or fivenations came for their in-struction, where the over-lapping elements of all kindscollaborate—the masterwith his disciples, the Greekphilosophers with the fathersof the Church, and what istaught with what is immeasurable mind ofAristotle, from which revo-lutionary thought claimedits authority against thetheologians, would haverecognized in the disorderedunity and the rich materialof this time the irruption ofthe genius of the senseswhich every thousand yearsarises from the depths of thepeoples to save the worldfrom the dangers of pureabstraction. Men had cursed the
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