Peripatetic
the name given to the followers of the Aristotelian philosophy. Aristotle partly adopted the results of Plato, and made them available for the world. Both teachers admitted that science could only be formed from Universals, but Aristotle took the view afterward called Nominalist, and contended that such Universals were noth ing more than inductions from particular facts. He thus made experience the basis of all science. In the Middle Ages, Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) did much to spread the Peripatetic philosophy, as well as the ethical and physical writings of Aristotle, and his pupil, St. Thomas Aquinas (1227-1274), the greatest of the Scholastics, was much influenced by them. The study of the works of Aristotle was greatly revived in the 19th century, and those of St. Thomas Aquinas were specially recommended to clerical students by Pope Leo XIII. pair of hooked claws. The head bears a pair of simple annulated antennæ, and a pair of simple eyes. They are viviparous, nocturnal in habit, and are found in decaying wood. Several species are known, from the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and New Zealand.
PERIPHERY. See CIRCUMFERENCE.