. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. Mrs. Browning did; but her simple, straightforwardexpression of a love that would share Francescas fate with her lover,rather than go to heaven without him, yields, and has yielded,matter for a hundred poems. She looks forward to no salvation; forher chief love is for him. Domino specialiter, sua singulariter: As amember of the species woman I am the Lords, as Heloise I amyours*—nominalism with a vengeance! But to return to Abelard. Permanent quiet in obscurity wasplainly impossible for him; and so in 1136 we find him back at
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. Mrs. Browning did; but her simple, straightforwardexpression of a love that would share Francescas fate with her lover,rather than go to heaven without him, yields, and has yielded,matter for a hundred poems. She looks forward to no salvation; forher chief love is for him. Domino specialiter, sua singulariter: As amember of the species woman I am the Lords, as Heloise I amyours*—nominalism with a vengeance! But to return to Abelard. Permanent quiet in obscurity wasplainly impossible for him; and so in 1136 we find him back at , lecturing to crowds of enthusiastic students. He probablythought that during the long years of his exile, the envy and hatredof his enemies had died out; but he soon discovered that he wasgreatly mistaken. He was too marked a character, and the tendencyof his thought too dangerous, for that. Besides, he emptied theschools of his rivals, and adopted no conciliatory tone toward natural result followed. In the year 1140, his enemies, headed. AHELAHDS VISIT TO HELOISE ABELARD 2C by St. Bernard, who had long regarded him with suspicion, raised acry of heresy against him, as subjecting everything to reason. Ber-nard, who was nothing if not a fanatic, and who managed to givevent to all his passions by placing them in the service of his God, atonce denounced him to the Pope, to cardinals, and to bishops, inpassionate letters, full of rhetoric, demanding his condemnation as aperverter of the bases of the faith. At that time a great ecclesiastical council was about to assem-ble at Sens; and Abelard, feeling certain that his writings containednothing which he could not show to be strictly orthodox, demandedthat he should be allowed to explain and dialectically defend hisposition, in open dispute, before it. But this was above all thingswhat his enemies dreaded. They felt that nothing was safe beforehis brilliant dialectic. Bernard even refused to enter the lists withhi
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