“Nobody can understand the greatness of the 13th century, who does not realise that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the Renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing.” — Saint Thomas Aquinas, Garden City, NY: Doubleday Image, 1933, 41 – G. K. Chesterton