[Footnote 71: See _Pref._ to Jebb's edition. The passages, there quoted, however, are not extracts from the _Opus Majus_, but (apparently) from the _Opus Minus_ (_MS. Cott._ Tib. c. 5.) "Si haberem potestatem supra libros Aristotelis, ego facerem omnes cremari; quia non est nisi temporis amissio studere in illis, et causa erroris, et multiplicatio ignorantiæ ultra id quod valeat explicari.... Vulgus studentum cum capitibus suis non habet unde excitetur ad aliquid dignum, et ideo languet et _asininat_ circa male translata, et tempus et studium amittit in omnibus et expensas."] [Footnote 72: Part ii.] [Footnote 73: Parts iv. v. and vi.] [Footnote 74: _Op. Maj._ p. 476.] [Footnote 75: _Op. Maj._ p. 15.] [Footnote 76: _Ibid._ p. 445, see also p. 448. "Scientiæ aliæ sciunt sua principia invenire per experimenta, sed conclusiones per argumenta facta ex principiis inventis. Si vero debeant habere experientiam conclusionum suarum particularem et completam, tunc oportet quod habeant per adjutorium istius scientiæ nobilis (experimentalis)."] [Footnote 77: _Op. Maj._ p. 60.] [Footnote 78: _Ibid._ p. 64.] [Footnote 79: "Veritates magnificas in terminis aliarum scientiarum in quas per nullam viam possunt illæ scientiæ, hæc sola scientiarum domina speculativarum, potest dare." _Op. Maj._ p. 465.] [Footnote 80: One of the ingredients of a preparation here mentioned, is the flesh of a dragon, which it appears is used as food by the Ethiopians. The mode of preparing this food cannot fail to amuse the reader. "Where there are good flying dragons, by the art which they possess, they draw them out of their dens, and have bridles and saddles in readiness, and they ride upon them, and make them bound about in the air in a violent manner, that the hardness and toughness of the flesh may be reduced, as boars are hunted and bulls are baited before they are killed for eating." _Op. Maj._ p. 470.] [Footnote 81: _Op. Maj._ p. 473.] [Footnote 82: Quoted by Jebb, _Pref._ to _Op. Maj._] [Footnote 83: Mosheim, _Hist._ iii. 161.] [Footnote 84: _Op. Maj._ p. 57.] [Footnote 85: Mosheim, iii. 161.] CHAPTER XII. THE REVIVAL OF PLATONISM.