ALFRED'S VERSION OF THE SOLILOQUIES
LVII
and slighted Middle Ages. Falsely wise scholars have stalked stolidly over the surface of this region, and pronounced it arid and worthless. But the keen vision of genius pierces deeper, and lo, when once excavations have been begun, a whole Olympia emerges! To eyes untrained it appeared a blank, and thus was called the Dark Age; but had it not, rather, somewhat of the brightness that blinds?
