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The idea of homogeneous segmentation of persons and
relations and functions could only appear to the sixteenth
century as the dissolution of all bonds of sense and reason.
King Lear offers a complete demonstration of how it felt to live
through the change from medieval to Renaissance time and
space, from an inclusive to an exclusive sense of the world. His
changed attitude to Cordelia exactly reflects the idea of the
Reformers concerning fallen nature. Poulet says (p. 10):
For them, too, both man and nature were divinely
animated. For them also there had been a time when
nature and man had participated in the creative power. . . .
But that time existed for them no longer. The time when
nature was divine was now succeeded by the time of
fallen nature; fallen by its own fault, by the free act in
consequence of which it had separated itself from its