Excerpt from Guidon
The spacious times of great Elizabeth, the fullness of those golden English days, what eloquent pens have tried and failed, yet tried again, to give us at least an idea of that wonderful epoch. One writer tells us that the bountiful life of our own days has but grown from that life-giving sap, the fruitage of that marvellous blossom.
For ages the hearts of men had been weighed down and oppressed by the thought of their own impotence and woeful fate. "The world is evil and lost; let us escape by insensibility, amazement, ecstasy;" thus taught the old philosophers; and when the Christian appeared upon the stage he entered with the cry, "Prepare, for the kingdom of God is at hand." In the 15th century, however, Science, which is but another name for intellectual truth, came to a glorious birth. Old things passed away, all thing were made new; there was a new heaven and a new earth. Instead of an indefinite plain bounded by dark seas, they saw the earth as a glorious planet, circling in her appointed orbit round the sun, "that master light of all our seeing." The bold Spaniard sailed into the unknown west, and return for a handful of jewels laid a new world at the feet of his queen. So America and India loomed up on the horizon with such suddenness that men gasped in surprise.
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