# Old English libraries

Author: Savage, Ernest Albert, 1877-1966; Hutt, James, 1870-1937 [Contributor]

Genre: Bibliomania

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1615

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Old+English+libraries+Savage&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To people of modern times early monachism must seem an unbeautiful and even offensive life. True piety was exceptional, fanaticism the rule. Ideals which were surely false impelled men to lead a life of idleness and savage austerity,--to sink very near the level of beasts, as did the Nitrian hermits when they murdered Hypatia in Alexandria. But this view does not give the whole truth. To shut out a wicked and sensual world, with its manifold temptations, seemed the only possible way to live purely. To get far beyond the influence of a barbaric society, utterly antagonistic to peaceful religious observance, was clearly the surest means of achieving personal holiness. Monachism was a system...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-english-libraries-1615/chapters/8/index.md)