THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHY 



which emanate from the universal intelligence are 

 imperishable for all humanity; but nothing remains 

 of the individual receptive intellect.* These ideas, 

 which contain pantheistic principles, were violently 

 opposed in the Latin schools by Albertus Magnus, 

 St. Thomas Aquinas, and later by Duns Scotus. The 

 later half of the thirteenth century was a battlefield 

 in which the doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas re- 

 mained the conquerors. After Averrhoes no other 

 Arabian philosophers became prominent in Europe. 



THE JEWISH PHILOSOPHY. 



The learned Orientalist, Solomon Munk (1802- 

 1857), remarks: "The Jews, either as a nation or as 

 a religious society, played only a secondary part in 

 the history of philosophy ; it was not their mission. 

 It is incontestable, however, that they shared with 

 the Arabs the merits of having preserved and propa- 

 gated philosophical science during the ages of bar- 

 barism, and of having, for a certain time, exerted a 

 civilizing influence on the European world." f " To 

 know God and to make Him known to the world 

 was the mission given to the Jewish people ; but it 

 was by the inspiration of faith, by a spontaneous 

 revelation, that their people were led to God. It was 



* Solomon Munk : Philosophie Juive et Arabe. P. 445. 

 f La Philosophie chez lea Juifs. P. 511. 



