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Excerpt from The Haverfordian, Vol. 45: June, 1925 Culture is to be a means, not an end. Man is to absorb all the best of the past and present that he can, make it part and parcel of his very being, aiming at his own perfection, becoming all that he was created capable of becoming. In getting a knowledge of the history of the past, the student will study the Middle Ages among others, where he will find the dominating trait to have been Spiritual impulse which developed a full and complete civilization, manifested in its religion, art, philosophy, politics, customs, manners, and habits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.