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... During the Renaissance Luther and Calvin played their great rôles, and it saw Loyola and the little understood . At the beginning, Columbus and D… - Sidney Dark
" "... During the Renaissance Luther and Calvin played their great rôles, and it saw Loyola and the little understood . At the beginning, Columbus and Da Gama make their voyages, and its later years were made romantic by the hazardous adventures of and Drake. It was the age of the , an age of adventure, an age of criticism, an age of laughter, an age of reaction and rejection, of destruction and reconstruction, of glory for princes and of suffering for the common people.
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About Sidney Dark
(14 January 1874 – 11 October 1947) was an English journalist, critic. editor, and author of more than 30 books in a variety of genres. In 1921 in London he was one of the founders of the .
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Sidney Ernest Dark
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