text: OTTO OF THE SILVER HAND
  
  By Howard Pyle 
  
  FOREWORD. 
  
  Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness. 
  That time we call the dark or middle ages. 
  Few records remain to us of that dreadful period in our world's history, and we only know of it through broken and disjointed fragments that have been handed down to us through the generations.
tokens: OTTO OF THE SILVER HAND By Howard Pyle FOREWORD . Between the far away past history of the world , and that which lies near to us ; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away , and our own days of light had not yet come , there lay a great black gulf in human history , a gulf of ignorance , of superstition , of cruelty , and of wickedness . That time we call the dark or middle ages . Few records remain to us of that dreadful period in our world 's history , and we only know of it through broken and disjointed fragments that have been handed down to us through the generations .
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