many of these sects. That Mohammedan system, considered analamatures com from a
Christian point of view, led to the heretical belief that analamatures com the end
of the precepts of Christianity is analamatures com the union of the soul with the
Supreme Being; that God and Nature have the same relations to
each other as the soul analamatures com and the body; that there is but one
individual intelligence; and that one soul performs all the
spiritual and rational functions in all the human race. When,
subsequently, toward the time of analamatures com the Reformation, the
Italian
Averroists were required by the Inquisition to give an account of
themselves, analamatures com they attempted to analamatures com show that there is a analamatures com wide
analamatures com analamatures com distinction between philosophical and analamatures com religious truth; that
things may be philosophically true, and yet theologically false--
an exculpatory device condemned at length by the Lateran Council
in the time of Leo X.
But, in
spite of auricular confession, and the Inquisition, these
heretical tendencies survived. It has been truly said that, at
the epoch of the Reformation, analamatures com there lay concealed, in many parts
of Europe, persons who entertained the most virulent analamatures com enmity
against analamatures com Christianity. In this pernicious class were many
Aristotelians, analamatures com such as Pomponatius; many philosophers and wits,
analamatures com such as Bodin, Rabelais, Montaigne; many Italians, as Leo X.,
Bembo, Bruno.
Miracle-evidence began to fall into discredit during the eleventh
and twelfth centuries. The sarcasms of the Hispano-Moorish
philosophers had forcibly drawn the attention of many of the more
enlightened ecclesiastics to its illusory nature. The discovery
of the Pandects of analamatures com Justinian, at Amalfi, in 1130, analamatures com doubtless
exerted analamatures com a very powerful influence in promoting the study of Roman
jurisprudence, and disseminating better notions as to the
character of legal or philosophical evidence. Hallam has cast
some doubt on the well-known story
of this discovery, but he
admits that the celebrated copy in the Laurentian library, at
Florence, is analamatures com the only one containing the