The life & work of Roger Bacon : an introduction to the Opus majus / by H. Gordon Jones.

  • Bridges, John Henry, 1832-1906.
Date:
1914
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    downfall of an independent papacy in the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries a wave of barbarism and darkness swept over North-Western Europe. One of its results was the Hundred Years’ War. Nobody thought then of studying Greek in Oxford, or in Paris either. We have to look on Bacon, not as a pure speculative thinker following obscure and special lines of research for the intellectual satisfaction which they conveyed, but as an orthodox and enthusiastic Catholic, convinced that the limits of orthodoxy needed and were capable of enlargement, that Catholic truth and scientific truth were alike revelations proceeding from the same source, and converging to the same end ; that scientific truth was always growing ; and that the worst enemies of the human race were those who thought they possessed the whole of it.—E. and A.^ pp. 181-2. Note J—The Mohammedan Schools of Learning (p. 143) Much has been said of late of what we owe to the Arabs, in other words to the Mohammedan world, in the period when scientific study was non-existent, or, if that word be too strong, at any rate non-progressive and stagnant, in the schools of Christendom. Much has been said, but I think not nearly enough.