PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES. 



doctrines should be solemnly condemned, declaring that they were culpable, 

 inasmuch as they might have troubled innocent consciences (Fig. 39). 



In spite of the perils which the abuse of reasoning might entail upon the 

 faith, Peter, surnamed the Lombard, who was Bishop of Paris in 1159, 

 furnished abundant material for his controversy in his book " Les Sentences," 



Fig. 40. Plenary Court of Dame Justice. An Allegory referring to Book V. of Aristotle's 

 " Ethics." Upon the pendants are inscribed " Fortitude," " Private Justice," " Legal 

 Justice," " Mansuetudo," " Eutrepelie," " Distributive Justice," "Commutative Justice." 

 Miniature of a Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century. Burgundy Library, Brussels. 



a vast collection of extracts from the writings of the fathers on the principal 

 points of metaphysics and Christian morality. The author obtained the name 

 of Maitre des Sentences, and his work became the basis of theological teaching, 

 and no other work, perhaps, except the Bible, has had so many interpreters. 

 John of Salisbury, whom Louis le Jeune raised, in 1176, to the bishopric of 



