CHAPTER XXXV. THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

§ 1. Christianity and popular education 139

§ 2. Europe begins to think for itself 148

§ 3. The Great Plague and the dawn of communism 153

§ 4. How paper liberated the human mind 158

§ 5. Protestantism of the princes and Protestantism of the peoples 160

§ 6. The reawakening of science 167

§ 7. The new growth of European towns 177

§ 8. America comes into history 184

§ 9. What Machiavelli thought of the world 194

§ 10. The republic of Switzerland 198

§ 11A. The life of the Emperor Charles V 199

§ 11B. Protestants if the prince wills it 210

§ 11C. The intellectual under-tow 210