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Später begriff er, wie bedeutsam es war, daß ihn die Universität auf den ersten Blick vor allem an eine Festung erinnert hatte, denn trotz all ihrer Ambitionen war sie das wichtigste Glied in der Abwehr, welche die Scholastik gegen die Flut der neuen, aus Italien, aus England und aus Rotterdam hereinströmenden Ideen errichtet hatte.
It was significant, he realised later, that the college on first sight had reminded him of nothing so much as a fortress, for it was, despite its pretensions, the main link in the defences thrown up by scholasticism against the tide of new ideas sweeping in from Italy, from England, and from Rotterdam.
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