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M.Besant E.Walter
Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin
page 146
means whatever could not but produce a salutary effect. The immediate effect of the Crusades was the substitution of higher for lower motives, the sudden cessation of war, the shaming of the clergy into something like purity of life, the absorption into the armies of the Cross of the " men of violence," and some temporary alleviation to the sufferings of the poor.
The hour and the man were both at hand.
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