Courage became more a moral than a physical quality.

The victory was delivered to the brain of the general.

Printing has established, as indestructible, all knowledge, and disseminated, as the common property of every one, all thought; while paper has made the work of printing cheap.

Such reflections as these, however, are trite, and must occur to every mind.

It is far more to the purpose to repeat that not the inventions, but the intelligence that used them, the conscious calculating spirit of the modern world, should rivet our attention when we direct it to the phenomena of the Renaissance.
In the work of the Renaissance all the great nations of Europe shared.
But it must never be forgotten that as a matter of history the true Renaissance began in Italy.