Capitolo 10
this earth with some that were to the best sinners. Bernard was a total
disbeliever in Scholasticism; then it was Voltaire. Bernard brought the
society of his/her time to divide his/her skepticism, but you/he/she could give the
society any other intellectual fun to assuage his/her restlessness.
Its crusade failed; his/her enthusiasm of ascetic it was grown weak; God came nearbyer anybody.
If there was in France, among 1140 and 1200 a more typical
English of the future Church type of England that John of
Salisbury, he has not left trace; and John wrote a description of
his/her time that a picturesque contrast does with the portrait
painted by Abelard, his/her old master, of the century to his/her beginning.
John weighed Abelard and the schools against Bernard and the
closes in the convent, and concluded freshly that the truth way conducted rather
through Citeaux that brought him/it to Rentals as Episcopalian in 1176,
and to a mild skepticism in faith. 'I prefer to doubt' he said,
'rather than rashly to define what is hidden.' The battle with the
schools had only resulted then in to create three son-in-laws of sceptics:--
the disbelievers in human reason; the passive agnostics; and the
sceptics corrected that you/he/she would have been atheistic you/he/she had challenged them. The
excellent you/he/she was represented from the School of St. Victor; the second
from John of same Salisbury; the third one, from a class of schoolmen
who him called Cornificii, as if theirs made a practice of
horns that invent of dilemma on whether to mend their opponents; as, for
example, they asked if a pig that was conducted to introduce on the market was conducted
from the man or the rope. One immediately asks: What rope?--If
Honors, for example, or Will Gratis?
"John Vescovile used the science to which he had only learned in the school
reaches the conclusion that, if philosophy were a science to everybody, its
the better practical use was to teach the charity--the love. Also the soon,
superficial debates of the schools, in 1100-50 you/they had exhausted this way