The Works of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Part 2

...or to Boethius, or to Thomas, or to Albert, or to some other scholastic of their own, that they will never oppose themselves to them; and if anyone should feel even a fingernail's breadth differently from them, they proclaim him a scandalous heretic, offensive to pious ears, to be consumed by fire and flames. These, therefore, are the reckless giants and enemies of the sacred scriptures who are to be attacked; their camps and fortresses are to be stormed, and it must be shown how great is the blindness of men when, with so many sciences and arts, and with so many masters and authorities of each, they always stray from the knowledge of the truth; and also how great is the rashness and arrogant presumption to prefer the schools of the Philosophers to the Church of Christ, and to put the opinions of men before, or equal to, the word of God. Finally, what an impious tyranny it is to capture the wits of students for predetermined authors, and to take away from disciples the freedom of investigating and following the truth. Since all these things are so manifest that they cannot be denied, pardon must be granted if I seem to declaim more freely and perhaps more bitterly against certain kinds of disciplines or the professors of the same.