James J. Walsh
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33 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
James J. Walsh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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John Fiske said in his introduction to the beginnings of New England, it is hard to find words to express the debt of gratitude which modern civilization owes to the Roman Catholic Church.
When John Fiske made that admission, rest assured that he knew whereof he spoke.
don't talk about lazy monks they built the many hundreds of monasteries in england drained the fence and raised the dignity of labor the president of the massachusetts agricultural college declared that monasteries were the first agricultural schools
don't ever talk against the jesuits until you know at least one of them you can find them now in any american city of half a million inhabitants or so and they are rather pleasant men to meet don't talk about lack of initiative in the middle ages
frederic harrison said of all the epochs of effort after a new life that of the age of aquinas roger bacon st francis st louis giotto and dante is the most purely spiritual the most really constructive and indeed the most truly philosophic don't forget that in recent years there has been serious discussion as to whether the thirteenth century may not have been the greatest century of human existence
don't scoff at the idea of a medieval century as the greatest until you have weighed frederick harrison's expression we find in this century the thirteenth a harmony of power a universality of endowment a glow an aspiring ambition and confidence such as we never find in later centuries
don't brush aside the thought of the medival period as quite unworthy of consideration in the history of humanity until you have read further what men like fiske freeman frederick harrison macaulay hallam and many others have written of it
don't talk about the failure of the middle ages to appreciate values properly our richest millionaires scarcely have money enough now to buy the things that medieval folk in little towns of less than ten thousand inhabitants made for themselves
don't be out of fashion it is fashionable now to talk about the middle ages as the bright ages because of all they did for art architecture education literature and above all for the arts and crafts
Don't suggest that the Middle Age was wrapped up in its own conceits.
It made the most beautiful books, the most charming needlework, the finest illuminations, the most wonderful stained-glass windows that the world has ever known.
We are just beginning to admire these things properly.
It was when we had no interest in these things that we had no interest in the Middle Ages.
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