Excerpt from History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 1 of 2 The actual field of his labours was speculative science, and his work in it the reform of ecclesiastical learning. In his system of theology he brought into harmony a variety of conflicting tenets which had hitherto been fiercely battled over in the scholastic camp. For its originality and depth of thought, its clearness of detail, its breadth of conception, and its organic unity, this work may be compared to the great monuments of German Christian architecture of the period. He inaugurated a better understanding of the great masters of ancient scholastics, raised Mysticism from the dark abyss of Pantheism to the more clearly defined conception of God and the universe, ' and Opened the way for a more scientific handling of the whole teaching of Christian faith. But it is in the well-known pamphlet in which he pleads for the casting aside of all religious strife, for the establishment of one common creed, and the gathering together of all mankind under the one Catholic Church of Rome, that the spirit of the Cardinal, at once so truly philosophical and so deeply imbued with genuine Christian love of humanity, re veals itself most characteristically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.