. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. bled not at all about theprofessors at Paris. It is small wonder, then, that an anti-papal spirit grew among them. Its position as the championof orthodoxy gave the University prominence, and lent to theteaching of its professors an importance and a weight whichdid not attach to those of Wyclif or of Hus. Hence aroseduring the continuance of the Schism the preponderatinginfluence of men such as DAilly and Gerson, whose views it isimportant to understand. The theology of DAil
. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. bled not at all about theprofessors at Paris. It is small wonder, then, that an anti-papal spirit grew among them. Its position as the championof orthodoxy gave the University prominence, and lent to theteaching of its professors an importance and a weight whichdid not attach to those of Wyclif or of Hus. Hence aroseduring the continuance of the Schism the preponderatinginfluence of men such as DAilly and Gerson, whose views it isimportant to understand. The theology of DAilly may serveas an example. Born in 1350, the son of humble but honest parents, Colardand Petronilla, a patriotic Frenchman all his life through,Pieire dAilly went to the College of Navarre at the Universityof Paris; when he was twenty-two years of age, he was chosenproctor for the French Nation at the University, and took hisdegree as Doctor in 1380. It was then that he published histheological tractate on the Church. He was a middle man,standing cautiously between the two parties; he had imbibed Tschackert, 7, THE GREAT SCHISM 137 the teaching of Pierre Dubois and John of Paris, of Marsiglioof Padua and VV^illiam of Ockham ; but he saw that theChurch had not been utterly overthrown by Philip theFair, and his liberalism was moderated. Above all, hewas a Frenchman and a Galilean, a Galilean before thetime of Bossuet, a Galilean before the Pragmatic Sanction ofBourges. He was too conservative to belong to the partydirectly opposed to the Church, and too close a follower of thenew philosophy to belong to the orthodox. In philosophy hewas a nominalist, and nominalism had the advantage of draw-ing a sharp line between matters of the faith and of theintellect, of confining the reason to the things of which con-sciousness was taken, mediately or immediately, through thesenses and the intellect, and of relegating the higher truths ofreligion to a supernatural mysticism. But throug
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