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Excerpt from Prophecies and the Prophetic Spirit in the Christian Era: An Historical Essay Just as the world sees many instances of men who, like Rienzi and Arnold of Brescia, am We les souvenirs pour les 'espe'rances, so also it sees many who mistake hopes and longings for possi bilities and facts. Whether or no that is in any sense true of the Prophets of the Old and New Testament, it most assuredly is literally true of many of the so-called Prophets of the Middle Ages. By the help of their imagination, they took short cuts to what they ardently desired, or greatly dreaded, whether the reform of the Church or the recovery of Jerusalem, the destruction of Rome or the end of the world. So far as they were honest and believed in themselves, they fancied that they were gazing through a window, open to them alone, into the secrets of a not far distant future, while they were really looking into a fantastic mirror which re ected, not the future, but a real or imaginary past. What lay before them was really a blank; they had not the critical power to form a reasonable conjecture; but their minds, charged to overflowing with the memories of the past, saw them again in front. I ls ant pris les souvenirs pour les espe'rances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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