[458] James Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, ed. 1869, i, 250–51. [↑]
[459] Cp. Ueberweg, p. 464. Mr. Poole’s judgment (p. 280) that Occam “starts from the point of view of a theologian” hardly does justice to his attitude towards theology. Occam had indeed to profess acceptance of theology; but he could not well have made less account of its claims. [↑]
[460] Ueberweg, pp. 465–66. [↑]
[464] Ullmann, Reformers before the Reformation, i, 37, citing John of Goch, De libertate Christiana, lib. i, cc. 17, 18. Compare the Averroïst propositions of 1269–1277, given above, pp. 319–20. [↑]
[465] Lange, Gesch. des Materialismus, i, 187–88 (Eng. tr. i, 225–26). [↑]
[466] Reuter, Gesch. der religiösen Aufklärung im Mittelalter, i, 164. [↑]
[467] Gervinus, Gesch. der deutschen Dichtung, 5te Ausg. i, 489–99. Even in the period before the Minnesingers the clerical poetry had its anti-clerical side. Id. p. 194. Towards the end of the 12th century Nigellus Wireker satirized the monks in his Brunellus, seu speculum stultorum. Menzel, Gesch. der Deutschen, Cap. 252. See Menzel’s note, before cited, for a remarkable outbreak of anti-clerical if not anti-Christian satire, in the form of sculpture in an ancient carving in the Strasburg Cathedral. [↑]