Note 225 — Chapter II · THE CONTRIBUTION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BEFORE 1100 A. D.
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Div. institut., III, 24 (as cited by Kretschmer, Phys. Erdk., 1889, pp. 37f.). Thorndike, however, believes that the “opposition of early Christian thought to natural science has been rather unduly exaggerated” and that Lactantius “should hardly be cited as typical of early Christian attitude in such matters” (Magic, 1923, vol. i, p. 480).