Note 935 — Chapter XIV · THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE (B) THE MACHINE
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
P. 268. According to Roger Bacon the “third rôle of science,” which is not relative to the other sciences, consists in the power that makes it to search the secrets of nature, to discover past and future, and to produce so many marvellous results that power is assured to those who possess it.... The Church should take it into consideration in order to spare Christian blood in the struggle with the infidel and above all in preparation for the perils that will menace us in the days of Antichrist (E. Gilson, Philosophie au Moyen Âge, p. 218).—Tr.