All 4 Uses
Middle Ages
in
Atlas Shrugged
(Auto-generated)
- That's where the Vikings used to hide in the Middle Ages.†
Chpt 1.6 *Middle Ages = the period of European history beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and ending with the Modern Era (roughly 500-1500 AD)
- From the rites of the jungle witch-doctors, which distorted reality into grotesque absurdities, stunted the minds of their victims and kept them in terror of the supernatural for stagnant stretches of centuriesto the supernatural doctrines of the Middle Ages, which kept men huddling on the mud floors of their hovels, in terror that the devil might steal the soup they had worked eighteen hours to earn-to the seedy little smiling professor who assures you that your brain has no capacity to think, that you have no means of perception and must blindly obey the omnipotent will of that supernatural force: Society-all of it is the same performance for the same and only purpose: to reduce you to the†
Chpt 3.7
- You declare to your children that it is rational to loot, to torture, to enslave, to expropriate, to murder, but that they must resist the temptations of logic and stick to the discipline of remaining irrationalthat skyscrapers, factories, radios, airplanes were the products of faith and mystic intuition, while famines, concentration camps and firing squads are the products of a reasonable manner of existence-that the industrial revolution was the revolt of the men of faith against that era of reason and logic which is known as the Middle Ages.†
Chpt 3.7
- If you worked as a blacksmith in the mystics' Middle Ages, the whole of your earning capacity would consist of an iron bar produced by your hands in days and days of effort.†
Chpt 3.7
Definitions:
-
(1)
(Middle Ages) the period of European history beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and followed by the Renaissance (roughly 500-1500 AD)Often thought of as a time of instability, superstition, plagues, feudal lords, and knighthood.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)