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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 11
ledge were at the best under strong suspicion of heresy. I need not quote the obvious names. But there were certain bodies of people who did carry on the old knowledge, mostly by oral tradition, and who were perforce tolerated to a certain extent, because even the little knowledge that they did possess was so exceedingly useful. The best way to make armour, or to build Cathedrals, or to heal sickness would enable the Christian to get ahead of his friends. Therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the maximum amount of persecution compat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…so, almost impossible to estimate the causes of any given event, if only because those causes are infinite, and each one of them is to a certain extent an efficient determining cause. Take a quite simple matter like the time of year. If it had been winter instead of summer, the
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…ier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even to-day we find priestsat least in Oxfordwho appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious Magician inspired by the Devilthe Printing Press. But they feared. So those who pursued know-
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
one thing of which I feel certain is that 800 children is a lot. I dont know over how many years these practices were supposed to have spread. As I think you must all feel sure by now, I know nothing what- ever of my subject. But scientific experiment in those days was always a very prolonged operation. They thought nothing of exposing some unknown substance to the rays of the sun and moon for periods of three months at a time, in the hope that in some mysterious way the first stage of some dimly-visaged operation might be satisfactorily accom…