Dewitt, J: Planting of Princeton College (Classic Reprint)

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Dewitt, J: Planting of Princeton College (Classic Reprint)

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The interest of Charles in the education of his people was sin cere and profound and he could have secured no one as his minis ter of education better fitted than was Alcuin, by learning and ardor and industry, to organize a system of schools for the king dom. It is not too much to say, that the future of large and gen erous culture in western Europe had never since the breaking up of the Western Empire appeared brighter than it did when, at the close of the eighth century, Charlemagne was crowned in Rome as the successor of Constantine. But with the death of Charles and the division of his kingdom, the seculum obscurum may almost be said to have commenced. The power which had been centralized in the crown was dissipated throughout the empire. Those who had been the emperor's administrative agents, representing him as lords of the counties, became hereditary and almost independent sovereigns over their small domains. Instead of a strong monarch, a multitude of feudal lords ruled western Europe. This dissipa tion of power was followed by disaster to some of the highest interests of society. It made possible the pornocracy in the capi tal of Christendom. It substituted for a large and imposing government a multitude of small and warring tyrannies. On nothing was its influence more disastrous than on the schools of the liberal arts which Charles and Alcuin had labored so hard to establish and endow. Evervwhere they fell into decay and with their decay, worship became more sensuous and religion more superstitious and less moral, until there appeared no good ground for hope of a revival of learning, or of a reformation of religion, or of the reorganization of society.

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