Strange as the paradox seems, Saint Bernard and Lord Bacon, though looking at the world from opposite stand-points, agreed in this:- that the scholastic method was false and mischievous, and that the longer it was followed, the greater was its mischief. (Henry Adams)

Strange as the paradox seems, Saint Bernard and Lord Bacon, though looking at the world from opposite stand-points, agreed in this:- that the scholastic method was false and mischievous, and that the longer it was followed, the greater was its mischief.

Henry Adams

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