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... taint, as it must eventually do, the deeper heart of society, may lead to an orgy of the vital & sensational impulses such as has not been since the worst days of the Roman Empire. THE STUDENT But Lecky has proved that the moral improvement of Europe was due entirely to the rise of rationalism. THE GURU My son, there is one great capacity of the learned & cultured mind both in Europe & Asia which... contribution to the eternal store of knowledge. But in their isms and schisms trust not—they contain scant grain of truth hidden in a very bushelful of error. THE STUDENT Still it seems to me that Lecky is not altogether wrong. THE GURU On the contrary he is entirely right,—if we consent to lump together all enlightenment without regard to its nature & source, as rationalism; that the moral improvement ...