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IN the Middle Ages, the scholars swept in flocks, like migrating birds, from school to school. What we now call a University was then no particular spot on the earth; but, like the ark in the wilderness, moved whithersoever a great teacher, such as Fulbert, the Anselms, Abélard, Peter Lombard, unfurled his standard. This mobility was, indeed, a guarantee of the freedom and the power of learning.
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The Rise of the Experimental Sciences in Oxford 1 . Nature 66, 90–91 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066090a0
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