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St. Thomas More offers a plan for a bridge over the turbulent
river of scholastic philosophy.
* As we stand on the frontiers between the manuscript
and the typographical worlds, it is indispensable that a good
deal of comparison and contrast of the traits of these two
cultures be done here. Much insight into the Gutenberg era can
be had from observation of the scribal era. A familiar passage
from St. Thomas More’s popular Utopia (pp. 39­40) will serve
as a start:
‘That is yt whyche I mente’ (quod he), ‘when I said
phylosophye hadde no place amonge kinges.’ ‘In dede’
(quode I) ‘this schole philosophie hath not; whiche
thinketh all thynges mete for euery place. But ther is an
other philosophye more cyuyle, whyche knoweth as ye