Chapter IV: The Intellectual Life

Again the same general authorities may be referred to, in particular Lea's History of the Inquisition; also White's History of the Warfare of Science with Theology (two vols. 1896), Gebhart's Les origines de la renaissance (1879), Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Eng. tr. in one vol. 1892), Buckle's Introduction to the History of Civilization in England, Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences, Baden Powell's History of Natural Philosophy (1834); and for the different countries their special histories. Draper's Intellectual Development of Europe is to be followed with caution. As to Gerbert see the Vie de Gerbert of M. Olleris, 1867. On the general question see the volumes of F. H. Perrycoste on Ritual, Faith, and Morals and The Influence of Religion Upon Truthfulness (R. P. A. 1910, 1913). The effect of the Inquisition on literature is exactly and instructively set forth in G. H. Putnam's The Censorship of the Church of Rome (two vols. 1906).