[200] Cf. Op. Lat. iii. 696.
[201] Vide Wittman, Giord. Bruno’s Beziehungen zu Avencebrol in the Archiv für Geschichte der Phil. 13. 2 (1900).
[202] Causa, Lag. 253; cf. 246, and Op. Lat. iii. 696.
[203] Causa, Lag. 265.
[204] Cf. Wittman, loc. cit.
[205] Cena, Lag. 170.
[206] Her. Fur. Lag. 742. Algazel is connected with Averroes by Bruno in another argument against authority,—that the mere habit of and familiarity with a given belief does not authorise its truth, for “those who from boyhood and youth are accustomed to eat poison, come to such a state that it is transformed into a sweet and good nourishment for them, and on the contrary they come to abhor what is really good and pleasant according to common nature.”
[207] A Latin translation of Averroes’ Commentaries was published in 1472, and one of his criticisms of Algazel (Destructio destructionis) in 1497 and in 1527.
[208] Causa, Lag. 271, and Op. Lat. i. 2. 411.
[209] i. 1. 370.