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Tlmt of Plato was rejected ; and Mclancthon obtained the adoption of 

 tlial ol Aristotle, mid himself prepared, for the teaching of philosophy and in 

 conformity with Aristotelian principles, several elementary works which were 

 received with merited favour. Erasmus (Fig. 53), who remained a Catholic 

 with Lutheran tendencies, also followed the example of Mclanethon, and 

 undertook the translation of several treatises of Aristotle, revising them for 

 the use of the Bale school. But the philosophy of Aristotle took another 

 direction and attained another aim when carried into the Netherlands. The 

 Flemish Justus Lipsius, born near Brussels in 1547, followed in the wake of 



Fig. 52. The Natural Sciences in the presence of Philosophy. Fac-simile of a Wood Engraving 

 attributed to Holbein in the Gorman Translation of the "Consolation of Philosophy," by 

 Boethius, Augsburg Edition, 1537, in folio. 



the Stoics, applied their moral philosophy to the theories of pcripatetieisin, 

 and did not separate theology from philosophy. Gaspard Scioppius and 

 Thomas Gataker were his principal disciples. * 



France also had her share in these philosophical innovations. She had 

 been the first home of scholasticism, but the civil and religious wars of the 

 sixteenth century had caused an almost total suspension of study. But 

 Pierre llamus, more commonly called La Ramee, born in Picardy in 1515, 

 set to work to revive (lie teaching of philosophy, condemning Aristotle, and 



