lxxix, art.

i, 3; for Cornelius a Lapide on the derivative creation of animals, see his In Genesim Comment., cap.

i, cited by Mivart, Genesis of Species, p.

282; for a reference to Suarez's denunciation of the view of St.Augustine, see Huxley's Essays.
At the close of the Middle Ages, in spite of the devotion of the Reformed Church to the letter of Scripture, the revival of learning and the great voyages gave an atmosphere in which better thinking on the problems of Nature began to gain strength.

On all sides, in every field, men were making discoveries which caused the general theological view to appear more and more inadequate.
First of those who should be mentioned with reverence as beginning to develop again that current of Greek thought which the system drawn from our sacred books by the fathers and doctors of the Church had interrupted for more than a thousand years, was Giordano Bruno.