Considered not as a mode of thought, that will spontaneously occur to all men at a certain stage of intellectual development, but as having originated with Aristotle, they continually found favor with men of the highest culture.

We see them in Robert Grostete, in Roger Bacon, and eventually in Spinoza.

Averroes was not their inventor, he merely gave them clearness and expression.

Among the Jews of the thirteenth century, he had completely supplanted his imputed master.

Aristotle had passed away from their eyes; his great commentator, Averroes, stood in his place.