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The intellectual movement of the modern time was emerging from the narrow courses of scholastic thought, and beginning to spread itself abroad over the extended, if shallow, levels of the common mind.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “The intellectual movement of the modern time was emerging from the narrow courses of scholastic thought, and beginning…”
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Wilson describes the intellectual movement of his time as expanding beyond traditional scholasticism to engage the general populace.
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