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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Barbara Tuchman

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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Book Communication Quality
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
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Doctrine Reality Sex
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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Firsts Garment Legitimacy
Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
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Book Civilization Development Impossible
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Knighthood Love War
The whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Country Money More Prevail Property
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Century Emotion Pain
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
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Dying Sunset World
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Poison Running War
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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Fasting Purpose Victory
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Book Reading Stupid

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

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