Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900

Thus, no mere external sanction, stood the Faith; threefold: from the past it brought its pompous ritual, it appealed by its subtle dogmatic scheme to the intellects, and by its...

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The Greek was no heathen, suckled by nature and endowed only with her instincts; he sought in his mind to improve nature: but in the Renascence instincts were set as free as tho...

To appreciate the influence, covert or overt, of scepticism in the Middle Ages we must clear the meaning of the word. Under the yoke of tribal custom scepticism can hardly arise...

[15] Thus it was difficult to claim his authority for one side or the other. The metaphysical treatises were not known till the later part of the twelfth century. (See p. 75, no...

But, stronger even than realism, was a third adversity--the pride of the human mind. Socrates, although, for ethics and politics, he initiated the inductive method, was disposed...

[56] Albert--"nostri temporis stupor et miraculum!"--is an attractive figure, and deserves his renown as the greatest of the medieval sages. His endowments were richer and wider...