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arose a worldview that celebrated the greatness
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and dignity of mankind,
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which was a very sharp turning away
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from the medieval Western tradition that put God and life
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in the hereafter at the center of everything.
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This new vision is revealed with flamboyant confidence
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by Pico della Mirándola, a Florentine thinker,
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who said--wrote the following: "God told man that we,
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meaning God, have made the neither of Heaven nor of Earth,
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neither mortal nor immortal,
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so that with freedom of choice and with honor,
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as though the maker and molder of thyself,