The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend. The Age of Faith (1950)
Revolted by the unscrupulous pursuit of wealth that marked the age, and shocked by the splendor and luxury of some clergymen, Saint Francis of Assisi, denounced money itself as a devil and a curse and bade his followers despise it as dung. The Age of Faith (1950)