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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

CHAPTER V
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The declaration that there is but one intellect is an error subversive of the merits of the saints, it is an assertion that there is no difference among men.

What! is there no difference between the holy soul of Peter and the damned soul of Judas?
are they identical?
Averroes in this his blasphemous doctrine denies creation, providence, revelation, the Trinity, the efficacy of prayers, of alms, and of litanies; he disbelieves in the resurrection and immortality; he places the summum bonum in mere pleasure.
So, too, among the Jews who were then the leading intellects of the world, Averroism had been largely propagated.

Their great writer Maimonides had thoroughly accepted it; his school was spreading it in all directions.

A furious persecution arose on the part of the orthodox Jews.

Of Maimonides it had been formerly their delight to declare that he was "the Eagle of the Doctors, the Great Sage, the Glory of the West, the Light of the East, second only to Moses." Now, they proclaimed that he had abandoned the faith of Abraham; had denied the possibility of creation, believed in the eternity of the world; had given himself up to the manufacture of atheists; had deprived God of his attributes; made a vacuum of him; had declared him inaccessible to prayer, and a stranger to the government of the world.


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