Pouchet says: " En general au milieu du moyen age les sciences sont essentiellement chretiennes, leur but est tout-a-fait religieux, et elles sembent beaucoup moins s'inquieter de l'avancement intellectuel de l'homme que de son salut eternel." Pouchet calls this "conciliation" into a "harmonieux ensemble" "la plus glorieuse des conquetes intellectuelles du moyen age." Pouchet belongs to Rouen, and the shadow of the Rouen Cathedral seems thrown over all his history.

See, also, l'Abbe Rohrbacher, Hist.

de l'Eglise Catholique, Paris, 1858, vol.xviii, pp.

421 et seq.

The abbe dilates upon the fact that "the Church organizes the agreement of all the sciences by the labours of St.Thomas of Aquin and his contemporaries." For the complete subordination of science to theology by St.Thomas, see Eicken, chap.vi.For the theological character of science in the Middle Ages, recognised by a Protestant philosophic historian, see the well-known passage in Guizot, History of Civilization in Europe; and by a noted Protestant ecclesiatic, see Bishop Hampden's Life of Thomas Aquinas, chaps.