scholasticism, as known in the empty speculations of metaphysicians,
gave place to the more profitable principles of moral philosophy. The
study of the Greek language was introduced in England by William Grocyn,
a fellow of New College, Oxford, who died about the year 1520. "To the
mechanical genius of Holland we must ascribe the discovery of the art of
printing, for the original inventor was Laurentius John Coster, of
Haerlem, who made his first essay with wooden types about the year 1430.
The art was communicated by his servant to John Faust and John
Guttenberg, of Mentz. It was carried to perfection by Peter Shoeffer,
the son-in-law of Faustus, who invented the modes of casting metal
types." Trihemius, in his Chronicle, written A.D. 1514, says he had it
from the mouth of Peter Shoeffer that the first book they printed with
movable types was the Bible, about the year 1450, in which the