The Vision of the Scholar
The University of Paris, which was said to have been founded by Charlemagne, had been greatly enlarged by Louis the Young, and gifted with many privileges by Philip Augustus. All men of high merit aspired to be professors there; and its scholars were counted by thousands, and formed within the city a distinct and ill-disciplined population, which often troubled the public peace. But the kings of France esteemed the protection of science a sacred duty; and Saint Louis, who was reigning at the time of Albert’s arrival, liked to see his people well taught; knowing that ignorance and imperfect instruction are the worst enemies of religion and morals, and therefore necessarily of the happiness of mankind.
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