Crossword-Solution: ENCYCLOPAEDIST 14 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

The great Dominican encyclopaedist, Vincent of Beauvais, in his Mirror of Nature, while mixing ideas brought from Aristotle with a theory drawn from the Bible, stood firmly by the first of the accounts given in Genesis, and assigned the special virtue of the number six as a reason why all things were created in six days; and in the later Middle Ages that eminent authority, Cardinal d' Ailly, accepted everything regarding creation in the sacred books literally.

The world of 2440, its intolerably docile and virtuous society, reflects two capital weaknesses in the speculation of the Encyclopaedist period: a failure to allow for the strength of human passions and interests, and a deficient appreciation of the meaning of liberty.

Its best expression was that given by Condorcet, himself an Encyclopaedist, and originally a supporter of the Revolution.

This order comprised the rich banker and the beggar at his gate, the learned encyclopaedist and the water-carrier that could not spell his name.

Varro, a kind of encyclopaedist, wrote a _De Re Rustica_, also a work on the Latin language, _Menippic Satires_--satires it is true, but mixtures of prose and verse--and a work on _Roman Life_, as well as a crowd of small books dealing with every possible subject.