SOURCE: "Roger Bacon," in History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Random House, 1955, pp. 294-312.
Gilson was a prominent and prolific Neo-Thomist philosopher. He was the founder and longtime director of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies in association with St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto. In the following excerpt, Gilson offers a detailed overview of Bacon's beliefs as a philosopher and as a reformer.
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