location of vital contacts could be
expanded so as to include the history
of the intellectual commerce of races,
we should be able to read the story
of humanity in a new and searching
light. For the transmission of Greek
thought and beauty to the Oriental
world, the wide diffusion of Hebrew
ideas of man and his life, the contact
of the modern with the antique world
in the Renaissance, for instance, ef-
fected changes in the spiritual consti-
tution of man more subtle, pervasive,
and radical than we are yet in a posi-
tion to understand. The spiritual
history of men is largely a history
of discovery, -- the record of those
fruitful moments when we come
upon new things, and our ideas are
swiftly or slowly expanded to in-
clude them. That process is gen-
erally both rapid and continuous;

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