Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . the centre, to illuminate and govern the .nough convinced of the truth of his hypothesis, the philosopher yet dreadedthe ignorance and persecution of the times. Aware that bigotry would proba-bly assail him, he says, in his prefatory address to the pope : If there be anywho, though ignorant of mathematics, should presume to j
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . the centre, to illuminate and govern the .nough convinced of the truth of his hypothesis, the philosopher yet dreadedthe ignorance and persecution of the times. Aware that bigotry would proba-bly assail him, he says, in his prefatory address to the pope : If there be anywho, though ignorant of mathematics, should presume to judge concerning them,and dare to condemn this treatise because they fancy it is inconsistent withsome passages of scripture, the sense of which they have miserably perverted,I regard them not, but despise their rash censure. His work lay long coil- 86 ERASMUS. cealed, till the importunities of his friends prevailed upon him to publish ; buta few hours after the first copy was brought to him, he was seized with a vio-lent effusion of blood, which terminated his life, May 24, 1543, in his seven-tieth year. Copernicus was truly great, for to the extensive knowledge of acomprehensive mind, he united the mild virtues and the innocence of privatelife. Portrait of Erasmus reading. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, one of the most eminent scholars of the age in whichhe lived, was born at Rotterdam, October 28, 1467. He was the illegitimateson of one Gerard, by the daughter of a physician; but his father and motherdying when he was only nine years old, he was left to the care of three guar-dians, who determined on bringing him up to a religious life, that they mightenjoy his patrimony: for which purpose they removed him from one conventto another, till at last, in 1486, he took the habit among the canons-regular atStein, near Tergou. Erasmus took his fathers name only, according to what was then the fash-ion among scholars, turning it into Greek, Erasmus, or, as it should rather havebeen, E
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