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The West generous valour with which they
goesEast' risked their individual lives in its
ward defence* But from the first, the tern
dency was towards this freedom of
hand and mind subordinated to the
co/operative harmony which made
the freedom possible* That is the
spirit of Gothic Architecture.
ET us go on a while with
our history : Up to this
point the progress had
always been from East
to West, i.e*, the East carried the
West with it; the West must now
go to the East to fetch new gain
thence A revival of religionwas
one of the moving causes of energy
in the early Middle Ages inE urope,
and this religion (with its enthu^
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goesEast' risked their individual lives in its
ward defence* But from the first, the tern
dency was towards this freedom of
hand and mind subordinated to the
co/operative harmony which made
the freedom possible* That is the
spirit of Gothic Architecture.
ET us go on a while with
our history : Up to this
point the progress had
always been from East
to West, i.e*, the East carried the
West with it; the West must now
go to the East to fetch new gain
thence A revival of religionwas
one of the moving causes of energy
in the early Middle Ages inE urope,
and this religion (with its enthu^
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