The Blessed Past

I throughly enjoyed this weeks reading and would like to tie the readings about the black plague to that of the universities. As a college student I loved learning about the origin of such and the thoughts of those who created them and defended them. If people of this time were not so eager to learn about the world around them, we may have lost the lessons from the Black plague. Iaving lost so much, and with some people looking for someone or something to blame, i.e. God or the jews, or just being mentalling and emotionally spent by the thought it was the end of the world, if the wheels of learning had not been so far into rotation, the black plague may have been even a greater blow. Thank goodness great minds like Newton's had already been developed and dispite all, were still anxious to move on. And with all those who took the time to learn about medicine, and survived the plague, probably gave a base, no matter how small, for the cure we have now. I guess that's why I loved the quote by John of Salisbury, at the beginning of the 12th Century Renaissance article. HOW TRUE!!! I shared it with my husband and we both thought members of our government should be read it. All that we have, all that we are, and that we are currently becoming, is all because of those before us. We are not a generation of geniuses. We are decendents of innovative, courageous, open-minded people, who loved to learn and sought for a better live for themselves and their children. Us. And we have it. THANK YOU to all of you who have sacrificed much to make life better.