"[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death."

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Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has lifted man out of himself. It has changed the face of the world. There it lies, imbedded in more than eighteen centuries of human history; and history of no mean sort, the best record of the race.

— Herrick Johnson