COMMERCE WITH ASIA AND AFRICA

 

39. PEOPLE ONCE MORE DARED TO BE HAPPY JUST BECAUSE THEY

 

WERE ALIVE. THEY TRIED TO SAVE THE REMAINS OF THE

 

OLDER AND MORE AGREEABLE CIVILISATION OF ROME AND

 

GREECE AND THEY WERE 80 PROUD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS

 

THAT THEY SPOKE OF A RENAISSANCE OR RE-BIRTH OF

 

CIVILISATION

 

40. THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO FEEL THE NEED OF GIVING EXPRESSION

 

TO THEIR NEWLY DISCOVERED JOY OF LIVING. THEY EXPRESSED

 

THEIR HAPPINESS IN POETRY AND IN SCULPTURE AND

 

IN ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING, AND IN THE BOOKS THEY

 

PRINTED

 

41. BUT NOW THAT PEOPLE HAD BROKEN THROUGH THE BONDS OF