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Survivors of the plague, finding themselves neither destroyed nor improved, could discover no Divine purpose in the pain they had suffered. God’s purposes were usually mysterious, but this scourge had been too terrible to be accepted without questioning. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man… |
| A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara W. Tuchman. Paperback ©1978. pg. 123 |
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