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matters. In the Dark Ages to use their traditional name,
there was little assured leisure for pursuit of the niceties
of literature, art, philosophy, and theoretical science, but
many people nevertheless addressed their perfectly good
minds to social, agricultural, and mechanical problems.
Moreover, all through those academically debased
centuries, so far from there having been any falling off in
mechanical ability, there was an unbroken series of
discoveries and inventions that gave the Dark Ages, and
after them the Middle Ages, a technology, and, therefore,
a logic, that in many most important respects far
surpassed anything that had been known to the Greeks
or to the Romans of the Western Empire.
His theme is that “the Dark and Middle Ages in their
poverty and necessity produced the first great crop of Yankee