Capitolo 6
if these were for the carnal satisfaction or the maintenance of a
intellectual and original concept. It was precisely this danger that
waked up again the fears of the "rigourists" and in the light of
following events in the dominion of the intellectualism it is impossible
to deny that there was some justification for them dark
apprehensions. In St. Thomas Aquinas this trial that intellectualizes
marked his/her taller point and over there any margin of safety it was.
Him he didn't go beyond the limit of danger, but later him this
limit was old. The perfect equilibrium between mind and spirit
you/he/she was realized by Hugh of St. Victor, but after the separation
started and on the one side the unhealthy one was iper-spiritualization
of the Rhenish mystics, on the other the false intellectualism of
Descartes, Kant and the modern and whole school of materialistic
philosophy. It was the clear forecast of this inevitable problem
that not only made of St. Bernard an implacable opponent of Abelard
but of the whole system of the Scholasticism as well. For once he was
victorious. Abelard was made to keep silent and the mysticism of the
Victorines triumphed, only to be replaced fifty years later when
the two great orders, Dominican and Franciscan they produced them
triumphant protagonists of the intellectualism, Alelander Halesand
Albertus Magnus, and finally the greatest pure intellect of everybody
time, St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Bernard, St. Francis of Assisi the
Victorines, maintained that later everything, as Henri Bergson was to say,
seven hundred years later, "man's mind from his a lot of nature is
incapable to learn the reality", and that therefore faith is
better than the reason. God Pancetta smoked it came to the same conclusion when him
written men of "Impediment they arrange him as they wants in to admire and
almost adoring the human kind, this is sure; what, as an uneven
mirrour distorts the rays of objects according to its his/her own figure
and it sections, so the mind... trust cannot be had." It is Hugh of Street
Same Victor, had written, also in the days of Abelard: "There