...dreamed of under the gloomy shadow of the minster and within the sound of its solemn bells. To us moderns a still wider vista is vouchsafed, a greater panorama...and toilsome ascent, of humanity from savagery to civilisation. And as the scholar of the Renascence found not merely fresh food for thought but a new...

...dreamed of under the gloomy shadow of the minster and within the sound of its solemn bells. To us moderns a still wider vista is vouchsafed, a greater panorama...and the practice, the hopes and the ideals, not of (tw<j) highly gifted races only, but of all mankind, and thus at enabling us to follow the long march,...

...dreamed of under the gloomy shadow of the minster and within the sound of its solemn bells. To us moderns a still wider vista is vouchsafed, a greater panorama...and toilsome ascent, of humanity from savagery to civilisation.81 Eliot was never so confident about human ascent. But his critical position reveals...

...dreamed of under the gloomy shadow of the minster and within the sound of its solemn bells. To us moderns a still wider vista is vouchsafed, a greater panorama...and toilsome ascent, of humanity from savagery to civilisation. And as the scholar of the Renaissance found not merely fresh food for thought but a new...