text:  Pythagoras and Plato were indeed divinely gifted with a scientific presentiment of the great truths of Christianity soon to be revealed or say rather restored to the world; while Aristotle on the other hand is to be regarded as the father of those unhappy academical schismatics from the Great Church of living humanity who allowed the ministrant faculty of reason to assume an unlawful supremacy over the higher powers of intellect and gave birth to that voracious despotism of barren dialectics in the middle ages commonly called the scholastic philosophy