Compendium of Philosophical History

he himself wrote down the precepts of practical philosophy and, once these were published, he later turned his own study equally to instrumental and theoretical philosophy. These elements of philosophy recommended themselves greatly, both for their accurate connection of subjects and for the clear and eclectic selecting the best from various schools method of teaching that the author employed, and they earned for themselves a singular esteem and dignity. Once they were brought to light, most learned men in various universities as well as schools began to explain them and to teach philosophy to youths and adolescents from them, whose examples many others then followed, and they caused these elements to be introduced into the schools as a common compendium of philosophy almost everywhere, and by this reason they obtained an outstanding dignity above many other books of this kind. And although not