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The perspicuous Doctor . . Walter Burley 8 1 S 3 O The moat enlightened Doctor Raymond Lully ...... . 1300
Besides Friar Bacon , who belongs to a superior class , the class of true philosop hers , four of these martial pugilists , the irrefragable , the most subtle , the invincible , and the persp icuous , were born , and first fought their zealous fight , in the British Islands . __ _ _
^ Nor these only : so rapidly did the disputatious fever spread , that England abounded with these scholastic students in the reigns of Henry II . and his three immediate successors . A new order of mind , a new range of study appeared in England by the time that Richard L acceded . The
ancient poets arid historiographers , the venerated classics , were not only neglected , but despised . Rhetoric was treated with the contempt which indeed it merited . Logic was new cast . Grammar itself was altered ; the old rules and paths of the quadrivium were abandoned , The new
edat Venice 1508 . His foreign editor calls him omnium logicorum acutisshni ; inviolataj scholae invictissimorum nominalium inceptores . Oceham say& he writes his book to collect all the rules of the art of logic into one treatise , p . 1 . It is in three parts . He quotes Avicenna . There is great conciseness , precision , clearness and decision inOceham ' s writings . 8
He was born 1275 . From his g * reat reputation he was appointed preceptor to Edward III . He attacked the opinions of Duns Scotus ; lie studied at Oxford and Paris , and was at last made bishop of Ulm in Suabia . His works were 011 some of
Ae principal subjects of Aristotle ' s treatises , and of the schoolmen 5 also de motu auunaliuin , de sensibus , on memory , length of life , and the tides 5 on the soul ; and on ethical , ( Economical , and political subjects . He died 1338 . Some of his Works have been printed after Grosteste ' s ? ° ok . Se » e the catalogue of his writings * Tanner , Bib . 141- 142 .
John of Salisbury directs the first portion of his Metalogicus to an attack on what he calls the new sect of philosophy . He personifies one of its defenders under the name of Corneficius , and he paints him v features that have the air of being- as exaggerated as those of a Saracen on a
« ga-post . Ch . 1 , 2 , and 3 . This work * as neatly printed at Leyden , 1639 , at lhe € n ^ ^ the PolycratictiS . e *" efcc , historiograph ! , habebantur vaW nova liebant omma ; mno-^^ Gramma tical immutaliaturdialer
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philosophy glared in the literary atmosphere like a comet , attracting to itself the admiration and attention of the most intellectual part of society ,
and depreciating the value of all other studies . Implicit faith , dogmatical creeds , learned authority , and even plain facts , were undervalued . Convenientia and reason were made the
criterions of truth . He who had not imbibed the new philosophy , was treated as being duller than the long-eared ani-i mal of Arcadia , more obtuse and stupid than either lead or stone . In this rage for the disquisition of a specious intellectual novelty ^ which
so strongly roused the spleen of our valuable John of Salisbury , we see the innate love of improvement , its appetite for truth and reason , so inseparable from the human character , exerting themselves in all their energies . It was enough that the new
tica ; contemnebatur rhetorica ; et novas toti quadrivii vias , evaeuatis priorum regnlis , de ipsis philosophic adytis pro fere bant . Metal , p . 741 . 11 It is an instance of the blindness of even worthy minds , when novelties occur , that J . Salisbury did not perceive the expressive force and beneficial import of the very words he was using : u They brought
from the very depths of their philosophy , novas vias of the whole quaclrivium ;" that is , new paths in arithmetic , geometry , astronomy and music I But , perhaps , we ought not to blame him for not anticipating ; the vast flood of knowledge to which these new ways ultimately led . This passage , however , shows us the immense utility and importance of the rise and labours of the schoolmen .
So lam convenientiam sive rationeiu loquebantur . This argument , he adds , sounds in the mouth of all and to name a mule or a man , or some of tlie works of nature , was like a crime , the act of a simpleton or an uncultivated mind , and which a philosopher should shun . It was thought impossible to say or to do any thing con ^ venienter et ad rationis normam , unless the mention of conveniency and reason was expressly inserted . Metal , p . 741 .
13 Si quis incumbebat laboribus antiquorum , he was marked , and was a laughter to all , as if not only asello Arcadia ; tardior sed obtusior plumbo , vel lapide . Metal , p . 740 . 11 Abelard had made the same struggle for the independent exertion of reason , ft What does it profit , " he exclaimed t& a
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ITistory of the Scholastic Philosophy . &O 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/5/
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