Note 216 — Chapter II · THE CONTRIBUTION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BEFORE 1100 A. D.

ibid., vol. ii, p. 464. It must be pointed out, however, that the Neoplatonic, as distinguished from the Peripatetic philosophers, believed in a creation (see above, note 33), even though they denied that there was a commencement of the world! A discussion of the highly abstract classical and medieval theories of time and space would lead us too far astray from the field of geography. Suffice it to remark that subsequent medieval commentators on the hexaemeron in general followed Augustine, who adopted the Platonic doctrine that God created the universe and time simultaneously. Augustine said: “Procul dubio, non est mundus factus in tempore, sed cum tempore” (De civ. Dei, XI, 6, as cited 383by Duhem, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 467; Robbins, op. cit., pp. 7, 65–66, 82–83). See below, p. 418, note 26.