Word: rorum
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...discussion of the elements in the whole prior development which culminated in that age is at once masterly and full. One would like, above all to linger over more of his statements than this: "The end of (Greek) science was not to do but to know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course of the heavens and the vision of eternal law." As he points out this ideal was as incomprehensible to the mediaeval Christian...