Excerpt from The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery: To the End of the Sixteenth Century, an Address Delivered at the St. Louis Congress in 1904 Secondly - or indeed it is another aspect of these reflections - the soul of the Middle Ages was a collective soul; its great works were the offspring not of individuals but of peoples. Who built the minsters, who painted the windows and the Books of Hours, who wrote the liturgies and chansons, we know not. As the churches, the liturgies, the manuscripts, the poetry and drama were achieve ments not so much of persons as of congregations, so also medieval learning was for the most part the learning of inspired crowds at the heels of a rhetorician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.