. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. CHAPTER VI. SAVONAROLAS PHILOSOPHY. F all Savonarolas works, his philosophi-cal essays, mainly compiled for the useof the novices, were those held inslightest account. Almost all the bio-graphers continued to repeat, withouttaking the trouble to read them, thatthey were poor and servile imitations of Aristotle and Aquinas. To us this appears a most erroneousjudgment, but many circumstances helped to diffuse the first place, the scanty bulk of these essays, and theslight estimation in which they were held by their author ;and secondly, in
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. CHAPTER VI. SAVONAROLAS PHILOSOPHY. F all Savonarolas works, his philosophi-cal essays, mainly compiled for the useof the novices, were those held inslightest account. Almost all the bio-graphers continued to repeat, withouttaking the trouble to read them, thatthey were poor and servile imitations of Aristotle and Aquinas. To us this appears a most erroneousjudgment, but many circumstances helped to diffuse the first place, the scanty bulk of these essays, and theslight estimation in which they were held by their author ;and secondly, in consequence of the numerous charges theFriar brought against philosophy and philosophers, andthe vanity of such studies. It seemed improbable that hecould have written anything of value on a science ofwhich he spoke with so much contempt ; and as parts ofthe essays were really translations and compendiumsof Aristotle and St. Thomas, the prevailing opinion wasapparently justified. Nevertheless, in our anxiety to ascertain the grounds of
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