Book 3 — APPENDIX II
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AFTER THE REFORMATION 553
Decadence in the arts, education, scholarship and humanitarianism begins immediately after the Reformation and culminates at the end of the eighteenth century. Education not freer; academic liberty less (Prof. Paulsen). The New Learning and the Reform doctrines. Bishop Bale on the neglect of books. Wanton destruction of libraries. Decadence in art, "King Whitewash and Queen Ugliness supreme." Gerhard Hauptmann on decay in art as the exorbitant price of personal freedom of conscience. Decline of charity. Jail-like hospitals. Dissolution of social organization. Superstition and torture rampant after the Reformation. The Witchcraft delusion. Political decadence. The pre-Reformation House of Lords. Popular holidays obliterated. Internationalism overshadowed. Modern social progress a reversion to mediaeval notions.
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