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he sees the function of serving as a furtherer of conversation
“keeping the idle out of mischief” and “helping to shape the
mind and language.” It is clear that the book was yet far from
having become the main mode of politics and society. It was
still a surface fact which had only begun to obscure the
traditional lineaments of Western society. With regard to the
continuing threat of scholastic renewal there is the ever-
present literary or visual complaint about oral scholasticism
that it is words, words, words. Leibniz, writing on the “Art of
Discovery,” says:
Among the Scholastics there was a certain Jean
Suisset called the Calculator, whose works I have not yet
been able to find and I have seen only those of a few
disciples of his. This Suisset began to use Mathematics in
scholastic arguments, but few people imitated him