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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: country where the human mind seemed to be growing young once more;
the country of revived arts, revived sciences, learning, languages;
and--though, alas! only for awhile of revived free thought, such as
Europe had not seen since the palmy days of Greece. Here at least
he would be appreciated; here at least he would be allowed to think
and speak: and he was appreciated. The Italian cities, who were
then, like the Athenians of old, "spending their time in nothing
else save to hear or to tell something new," welcomed the brave
young Fleming and his novelties. Within two years he was professor
of anatomy at Padua, then the first school in the world; then at
Bologna and at Pisa at the same time; last of all at Venice, where
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