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Entry: Second Spring Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/second_spring#21511 Post contents: The Renaissance and the Enlightenment were products of the rediscovery of Western Civilization’s roots: Greco-Roman culture. Ideas about progressive government including democracy, the sciences, philosophy, art and architecture all sprang from renewed appreciation of and contemporary research into those giants. Christianity, as practiced for its first 1,100 years in Europe, had been a burden as much as a boon. For every inquiring Jesuit there was a provincial fanatic assailing heretics. Our lot is more that faith and spiritual rumination; sometimes we have to dig out provable, reproducible facts. The world transforms from one of demons and darkness to explainable cause and effect. Sent at: 2008 10 06