And here, with this note of warning (though perhaps rather of encouragement) we may close.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Grammar of Science, pp. 12, 13.
[2] Ptolemy of Alexandria: 127-151 A.D.
[3] J. M. Heald in art. "Aquinas" in Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
[4] Monks and theologians were betrayed into some controversial asperities. "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven" formed the appropriate text for a sermon by a Dominican.
[5] In spite of this, however, Descartes' works, in 1663, appeared in the Index of forbidden books: and his doctrines were banned by Royal decree from the French universities. Jesuit influences, which were not at all favourable to native religion in France (or elsewhere!), may have been responsible for this obscurantist policy.
[6] Merz, History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I, p. 384.
[7] Quoted by Ward, Naturalism and Agnosticism, p. 4.