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often became bewildering to an ordinary intelligence;
while they were apt to lose all practical good sense.]

To Roger Bacon, that XIIIth century monk that so much resembled a
XIXth century scientist, the schoolmen's conception of reasoning appeared but
an obstacle to truth as but a dyke against any inroad of truth. He discerned
that experience alone teaches anything, -- a principle that to use seems manifest,
because former generations have gradually worked out and handed down to us an
adequate conception of the out relation to experience and that to him too seemed
clear, because the import of the principle was not fully unfolded to his
mind. Of all kinds of experience, the very best, he thought, was an interior illumination;
for it can teach many things that the external senses could never
unaided discover, such as the transformation transsubstantiation of bread. [So
Galileo, three centuries later, relied much upon il lume naturale; but