If his successors had possessed the ability, enterprise, and breadth of view that characterized him, the world might never have known the period in history commonly called the "Dark Ages.
An examination of this period has led recent historians to abandon the term "Dark Ages.
These fifteen centuries embrace those generally known in history as the "Dark Ages," during which progress was indeed slow.
As the fifteenth century drew to a close there were unmistakable evidences of the dawn of a better day, and the long period known as the "Dark Ages" was to be succeeded by a brighter and more glorious era.
As the "Dark Ages" of Popery resulted from neglect of the sacred Scriptures in general, so even among the first reformers the Apocalypse was viewed with suspicion as to its claim to inspiration.
After this followed the long and dreary dark ages, but the sun of science, that bright and glorious luminary, was destined to rise again.
Is it any wonder that after this came the dark ages?
Dark ages" indeed those must have been, if these churches were erected without there being any more people than there are now.
Compare that with this, and then you have pretty fairly a view of the difference between us and our forefathers of the "dark ages.
We are beginning to find out that the "dark ages" were not so utterly dark as they have been represented.
Let us imagine for a moment all that was then done obliterated, never to have been done, we should now have to do the work of the so-called "dark ages.
It was a custom, furthermore, in wide areas for libraries to exchange duplicate copies of books and thus the extension of literature went on even in the "Dark Ages," though with a fluctuating progress.
And toward the close of the "Dark Ages" the movement toward enlightenment, known as the Renaissance, was accelerated in the beginnings of the great universities, the roots of which run down into the soil of the thirteenth century.
The centuries prior to the age of Gregory VII and of William the Conqueror may, on account of their disorder and ignorance, be properly called the "dark ages," although they beheld some important stages in the transformation of Europe.
With the gradual disappearance of the so-called "Dark Ages," the ink found on Spanish written MSS.
Through all the middle ages--called by Protestants the dark ages of the world--the echo of these words of Gregory I.
The position with regard to the future supply of alkali is very interesting.
In appearance and in other physical properties they resemble one another very closely; they are, therefore, called by the general name "halogen acids.
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