In short it was something which must happen in theory and which did happen in practice; all expectation suggested that it would be so and all experience said it was so.
Having thought it out theoretically and experienced it practically, they proceeded to deal with it equally practically.

The first division involved every principle of the science of thought; and the last developments followed out every principle of the science of war.
The Crusade was the counter-attack.

It was the defensive army taking the offensive in its turn, and driving back the enemy to his base.
And it is this process, reasonable from its first axiom to its last act, that Mr.Pound actually selects as a sort of automatic wandering of an animal.

But a man so intelligent would not have made a mistake so extraordinary but for another error which it is here very essential to consider.

To suggest that men engaged, rightly or wrongly, in so logical a military and political operation were only migrating like birds or swarming like bees is as ridiculous as to say that the Prohibition campaign in America was only an animal reversion towards lapping as the dog lappeth, or Rowland Hill's introduction of postage stamps an animal taste for licking as the cat licks.
Why should we provide other people with a remote reason for their own actions, when they themselves are ready to tell us the reason, and it is a perfectly reasonable reason?
I have compared this pompous imposture of scientific history to the pompous and clumsy building of the scientific Germans on the Mount of Olives, because it substitutes in the same way a modern stupidity for the medieval simplicity.