ABSTRACT
"The dark ages," he went on, ended with Charlemagne, after which the Middle Ages made order. After the great thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, this order broke down and we got the so-called Renaissance. In the eighteenth century there were many attempts at real reform, but much overwhelmed by the industrial age. The discursiveness of Geddes is such, and he so generously gives idea upon idea, telling also story after story, and making illustration after illustration, that it is almost hopeless to get a separate reply unless one fixes him down by a hard and fast question. Geddes quoted these lines of his friend Tagore, so fervently that one realized the passion of his life, and how he could see different points of view, experience different ecstacies, while keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
