He contended that "reason and
authority come alike from the one source of Divine Wisdom"; that
the fathers, great as their authority is, often contradict each
other; and that, in last resort, reason must be called in to decide
between them.
But the evolution of unreason continued: Agobard was unheeded, and
Erigena placed under the ban by two councils--his work being
condemned by a synod as a "_Commentum Diaboli_." Four centuries
later Honorius III ordered it to be burned, as "teeming with the
venom of hereditary depravity"; and finally, after eight centuries,
Pope Gregory XIII placed it on the Index, where, with so many other
works which have done good service to humanity, it remains to this
day. Nor did Abelard, who, three centuries after Agobard and
Erigena, made an attempt in some respects like theirs, have any
better success: his fate at the hands of St. Bernard and the
Council of Sens the world knows by heart. Far more consonant with
the spirit of the universal Church was the teaching in the twelfth
century of the great Hugo of St.
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