[345] Ante, Chapter X.
[346] Cur Deus homo, i. 1 (Migne, Pat. Lat. 158, col. 361).
[347] In the Cur Deus homo, i. 2, Anselm has his approved disciple state the same point of view: “As the right order prescribes that we should believe the profundities of the Christian Faith, before presuming to discuss them by reason, so it seems to me neglect if after we are confirmed in faith we do not study to understand what we believe. Wherefore, since by the prevenient grace of God, I deem myself to hold the faith of our redemption, so that even if I could by no reason comprehend what I believe, there is nothing that could pluck me from it, I ask from thee, as many ask, that thou wouldst set forth to me, as thou knowest it, by what necessity and reason, God, being omnipotent, should have assumed the humility and weakness of human nature for its restoration.”
[348] There is indeed an early treatise, De grammatico (Migne 158, col. 561-581), in which Anselm seems to abandon himself to dialectic concerned with an academic topic. The question is whether grammaticus, a grammarian, is to be subsumed under the category of substance or quality; dialectically is a grammarian a man or an incident?
[349] Cf. Kaulich, Ges. der scholastischen Philosophie, i. 293-332; Hauréau, Histoire de la philosophie scholastique, i. 242-288; Stöckl, Philosophie des Mittelalters, i. 151-208; De Wulf, History of Medieval Philosophy, 3rd ed. (Longmans, 1909), p. 162 sqq., and authorities.
[350] The locus classicus is Proslogion, cap. 2.
[351] Cur Deus homo, i. 12.
[352] Ibid. i. 5.
[353] Ibid. i. 7.
[354] Examples of Anselm’s prose are given post, Chapter XXXI.