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Great Chain

Read THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD PICTURE by Tillyard. Very briefly, they felt that the universe made a lot more sense than we are inclined to think, and that it was all arranged on the common principle of hierarchy. That is, just as some animals were clearly superior to others, and some metals were clearly more valuable than others, and society seemed to work best when people were stratified in distinct classes, so everything else: physics, atronomy, morality, art, etc probably also sorted itself out according to this universal principle of hierarchy.

Posted by Hamlet on March 23, 1997 at 12:35:12
 In Reply to "The Great Chain of Being during the Elizabethan Period (1533-1603)" posted by Jen on March 23, 1997 at 10:04:23


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