108 FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN 



tine's teaching, and first champion of Hteralism, 

 was Suarez, a Jesuit of Spain, a country which 

 through the invasion of the Moors had become 

 the second home of Arabic science and phi- 

 losophy. 



No advance whatever in the development of 

 the evolution idea was made in this long period ; 

 scientific speculation and observation were at a 

 standstill except among the Arabs. It is simply 

 a record of the preservation of the progress to- 

 ward the evolution idea made by the Greeks. 



In the very decades when this progress was 

 stamped out by the literalistic Jesuit theology of 

 Spain and Italy, the new modern or scientific 

 era in the development of the evolution idea was 

 opening in the teachings of Francis Bacon and 

 of the natural philosophers who closely suc- 

 ceeded him. 



The Fatheks and Schoolmen 

 Gregory (331-396) 



Gregory of Nyssa taught that Creation was 

 potential. God imparted to matter its fundamen- 

 tal properties and laws. The objects and com- 

 pleted forms of the universe developed gradu- 

 ally out of chaotic material. 



