The age of the crusades . cond successor of Bibars, demandedredress; it was refused. Khalil marched his troopsbeneath the walls. The capture of the place was inevitable. The cer-tain destruction that awaited them affected the in-habitants as once the people of Jerusalem, who cried, Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. Therevelry of the self-abandoned multitude ceased onlyin their ruin. The assault of the foe was quickly re-warded. Just a century after its recovery from theMoslems through the valor of Richard Cceur de Lion,Acre fell back again to their possession. Sixty thou-sand Christi
The age of the crusades . cond successor of Bibars, demandedredress; it was refused. Khalil marched his troopsbeneath the walls. The capture of the place was inevitable. The cer-tain destruction that awaited them affected the in-habitants as once the people of Jerusalem, who cried, Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. Therevelry of the self-abandoned multitude ceased onlyin their ruin. The assault of the foe was quickly re-warded. Just a century after its recovery from theMoslems through the valor of Richard Cceur de Lion,Acre fell back again to their possession. Sixty thou-sand Christians were borne away to slavery or put todeath. Thus faded from the land of the Christ the last rayof hope of its occupation by Flis people, until it shallbe conquered by the weapon which He appointed— the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. RESULTS OF THE CRUSADES. CHAPTER XLV. KINGSHIP—UNITY OF EUROPE—THE PAPACY—LIB-ERAL THOUGHT—INCREASED KNOWLEDGE—ARTS—LITERATURE—COMMERCE—THE TURK-ISH |HE picture of Europe at the inaugurationof the crusades in the eleventh century,with which our volume opened, is verydifferent from that in which we wouldportray the thirteenth century, when themilitant faith had practically ceased its conflict forthe possession of the Holy Land. In government,in popular morals, in education, in industrial methods,and in reasonable piety the world had greatly ad-vanced ; but as it was difficult to definitely tracethe causes of the crusades in the earlier era, so itwould be unwise to attribute to their influence allthe changes that had taken place during their con-tinuance. When a broad river debouches into afertile valley it is natural to point to that irrigating *68 Growth of European Kingdoms. 369 current as the cause of the abundant vegetation; yetmuch of the new life and beauty may be due to othersprings on the hillsides and to better conditions ofsoil and climate. There were certainly at work insociety other forces than
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