THE "DARK" AGES?
Sir,-In the Education Gazette for the First of March there is a full account of the broadcast which so astounded Mr. Miller. I must say I felt equally astounded. Possibly the compiler has mistaken the middle ages for the dark ages (so called). But to say outright that the middle ages saw a "black out on art education, science — even thought, and everything making for progress," is unmitigated balderdash. As a sample of the new history, this is certainly bad news, I suggest to the compiler another angle on the middle ages, Chesterton’s "The Mediaeval world was far ahead of the modern world in its sense of the things in which all men are at one, death and the daylight of reason, and the common conscience that holds communities together. Its generalisations were saner and sounder than the mad materialistic theories of to-day."
JUST JUDGMENT
(Okato).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 22
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149THE "DARK" AGES? New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 356, 18 April 1946, Page 22
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