It is this change and succession which
is to us the breath of our life: we know nothing of the steady static
weather of the great continents, where rain and drought have each their
measured and settled space: and we know nothing, and will know nothing,
of the formal and authoritative rule combining all Europe into one
realm, whether political or intellectual. For we know that unity and
permanence does not belong to this life, and our nearest approach to
truth is to be found not in a settled system but in the thousandfold
interactions of half-truths and partial systems.
Life like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of eternity
Until death shatters it to fragments.
A unity there is, but it is the unity of the countless and varied
flowers that carpet the meadows in spring, the unity of the common
spirit of life which animates them all.
BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
Leach, _The Schools of Medieval England_. Methuen.
Mullinger, J. Bass, _The Schools of Charles the Great_.
Paulsen, _Geschichte des gelehrten Unterrichts_.
Rashdall, _Universities in the Middle Ages_. Clarendon Press.
Foster Watson, _Grammar Schools_. Cambridge University Press
Woodward, _Erasmus_. Cambridge University Press.
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COMMERCE AND FINANCE AS INTERNATIONAL FORCES
Commerce and finance are departments of life in which mankind approaches
nearer to unity than in any other. They are practical expressions of the
instinct of self-preservation which is the first law of nature.
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