Excerpt from Science and Literature in the Middle Ages: And at the Period of the Renaissance
With this new and last volume, the subject of which is not, less replete with interest than of the three proceeding volumes, we bring to a close our work upon the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
In the beginning of the Middle Ages, at the commencement of the fifth century, the Barbarians in inroad upon the old world; their renewed invasions crushed out, in the course of a few years, the Greek and Roman civilisation; and everywhere darkness succeeded to light. The religion of Jesus Christ was alone capable of resisting this barbarian invasion, and science and literature, together with the arts, disappeared from the face of the earth, taking refuge in the churches and the monasteries. It was there that they were preserved as a sacred deposit, and it was thence that they emerged when Christianity had renovated pagan society. But centuries and centuries elapsed before the sum of human knowledge was equal to what it had been at the fall of the Roman empire. A new society, moreover, was needed for the new efforts of human intelligence as it resumed its rights. Schools and universities were founded under the auspices of the clergy and of the religious corporations, and thus science and literature were enabled to emerge from their tomb.
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