Excerpt from Johannes Scotus Erigena: On the Classification of Nature: First Part, of the First to Third Book. Containing the final thoughts of freedom from a Roman spirit nourished by the wisdom of the Greeks. In the 520s, Boethius sang the swan song of himself and the philosophy of antiquity in the prison of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric with the Consolation of Philosophy. Christianity of the Roman Church spread to the Germanic peoples, and during the tumultuous centuries leading up to the time of the great Frankish king Charlemagne, the emergence of book collections in the monasteries brought the teachings of wisdom from the Latin Church Fathers, along with another selection of secular knowledge, to England and France, to yield new blossoms and fruits on the tree of Germanic culture in the following centuries. About the Publisher: Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. 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 while 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.