Note 393 — Chapter IX · CHRISTENDOM IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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At this stage of his life Bacon revealed that, whatever were his wrongs, he was inclined to go halfway to meet them. In a new writing of similar purport with the others, the Compendium Philosophiæ, written in 1271,393 he not only attacked in detail the ecclesiastical system,394 but argued that the Christians were incomparably inferior to pagans in morals, and therefore in science;395 that there was more truth in Aristotle’s few chapters on laws than in the whole corpus juris;396 that the Christian religion, as commonly taught, was not free of errors; and that philosophy truly taught, and not as in the schools, was perhaps the surer way to attain both truth and salvation.397