第152章 MORALITY AND RELIGION(25)(2 / 3)

Influence of Ancient Superstition But in another way, and that dogmatically, antiquity exercised perilous influence.It imparted to the Renaissance its own forms of superstition.Some fragments of this had survived in Italy all through the Middle Ages, and the resuscitation of the whole was thereby made so much the more easy.The part played by the imagination in the process need not be dwelt upon.This only could have silenced the critical intellect of the Italians.