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Excerpt from On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury: I, the Library, II, the Church
Useless, however, I cannot think it, unless the gauging of the intellectual resources or the mental equipment of the men of old time be useless. In a modern biography it is often a chief point of interest to know what books the subject of the biography liked best - to what authors he owed most. And in a case like the present we are but extending the field a little, and ascertaining what authors were studied by a whole body of men who in their time were a mighty power in Eastern England, nay, at the ruling centre of England itself. I am not a historian, but I feel certain that it is worth while to know something about the literary and religious in?uences under which the members of so great a society as was the Abbey of Bury were educated. But I must approach the subject.
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