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But his doubts and fears remained. He did not, like other monks, find peace and consolation; he did not become seraphic, like Saint Francis, or Bonaventura, or Loyola. Perhaps his nature repelled asceticism; perhaps his inquiring and original mind wanted something better and surer to rest upon than the dreams and visions of a traditionary piety.
He seemed to be gently probing the matter in concert with his hearers, not playing Sir Oracle. At the bottom of all which was doubtless a slight touch of humbug, but the humbug that embellishes life; and all sense of it was lost in the subtle Italian grace of the thing. "I seem to hear the oracle of Delphi," said Fra Colonna enthusiastically. "I call that good sense," shouted Jacques Bonaventura.
When he returned to his room he ascended the stairs step by step, as advised by St. Bonaventura and St. Thomas Aquinas. His gait was slow, his mien grave; he kept his head bowed as he walked along, finding ineffable delight in complying with the most trifling regulations. Next came breakfast. It was pleasant in the refectory to see the hunks of bread and the glasses of white wine, set out in rows.
Assuming, as one must, the correctness of these facts, there can be no doubt that a very brutal murder and robbery had been committed. For some reasons, what, we are not told, the suspicions of the police fell at once on one of Volpi's sons, called Serafino, a lad of about 22, and on a friend of his, Bonaventura Starna, about two years older than himself.
To him the soul of man is indeed 'larger than the sky, deeper than ocean, but only through union and conformity with that Divine Spirit which 'searcheth all things yea, the deep things of God. He would have welcomed as a wholly congenial idea that grand mediæval notion of an encyclopædic wisdom in which all forms of philosophy, art, and science build up, as it were, one noble edifice, rising heavenwards, domed in by Divine philosophy, the spiritual and intellectual knowledge of God; he would have agreed with Bonaventura that all human science 'emanates, as from its source, from the Divine Light. He felt also that in the unity of 'the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will, would be found something deeper than all diversities in religion, which would reconcile them, and would solve Scripture difficulties and the mysteries which have tormented men.
The disciples of subtile speculatists like Aquinas, or of fervent mystics like Bonaventura, were not likely to recognize the worth and importance of the slow processes of experimental philosophy.
Search of passage to north-east abandoned Passage across the Pacific A group of islands made Thievish practices of the natives Called the Carolines The Moluccas reached Friendly reception by the King of Ternate Comes off in his state barge His magnificent jewels The Hind sails Careened at an island near Celebes Gigantic trees, fire-flies, crabs Gets among reefs and shoals Strikes on a rock Perilous position of the ship Gets off A heavy gale Runs under bare poles Anchors off Baratira Natives friendly Sails on to Java The Rajah treats them well The Golden Hind sails across the Indian Ocean Rounds the Cape of Good Hope Touches at Sierra Leone Enters the Channel Plymouth reached the 25th of September, 1580 Received by the Queen The Queen visits the Golden Hind Drake knighted His subsequent enterprises against the Spaniards In command of the Bonaventura attacks the Spanish Armada His last expedition to the West Indies, and death at sea.
After recovering breath, the old man resumed: "Why, yes! kinsman, you can be of the greatest use to Fra Bonaventura, who in his present situation needs your help. He was beatified many years ago, but is still waiting his admission to the Calendar of Saints. He is thinking long, is the good Father Bonaventura.
An embassy of Greeks appeared at Lyons; and although Bonaventura and Thomas Aquinas were present to argue the case for the Western Church, no persuasion was needed. It seemed as if at length a crusade were really possible. The chief sovereigns of Europe had taken the cross, and Gregory had even persuaded Charles of Sicily and the Greek Emperor to sign a truce. But it was not to be.
Bonaventura, who was made head of the Franciscan order in 1257, admits the general dislike aroused by the greed, idleness, and vice of its degenerate members, as well as by their importunate begging, which rendered the friar more troublesome to the wayfarer than the robber.
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