Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe
CHAPTER LXXI.
RELIGION AND THE HUMAN INTELLECT IN EUROPE.
Religion and the human intellect in Europe--Difference between the intellectual development of the nations of antiquity and those of Europeans--Causes that have accelerated this development in Europe--Origin of the spirit of subtilty--Service which the Church rendered to the human mind by her opposition to the subtilties of the innovators--Parallel between Roscelin and St. Anselm--Reflections on St. Bernard--St. Thomas of Aquin--Advantage of his dictatorship in the schools--Advent of St. Thomas in the middle ages of immense advantage to me human mind, 404