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Anyone writing so small a book about so big a man, must leaveout something.
There is undoubtedly a hopeful and creative Thomism in our time. He was one of
those great elemental barbarians, to whom itis indeed given to change the
world. It was daylight now, but a dull, clouded morning.
This is a
validsacrament, he seemed to be saying, and it is my duty toadminister it to
you.
But we are none the less puzzled by the fact that this didnot immediately
follow on St.
Thomas was whatmost modern men vaguely mean by an Optimist. It
never occurred to Aquinas to use Aquinas as a weapon.
It will be found earlier
in this book; and it was a quarrel of monks. Thomas Aquinas had struck his
blow; but he had not entirely settledthe Manichees.
She raised her eyes for a
moment, and they began immediately tostray.
Augustine, who is even now
regardedas relatively the determinist doctor of the Church. Perhaps the
impression is connected with the fact that painters dealwith things without
words.
The Manichees are not so easily settled; in the sense ofsettled
forever.
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Nor is this hope
vainor this promise unfulfilled. Here I leave the reader, on the very lowest
rung of those laddersof logic, by which St. Perhaps the impression is connected
with the fact that painters dealwith things without words.
For a time it seemed
that the destruction was final. Now Luther did begin the modern mood of
depending on things notmerely intellectual. Suppose two entirely new paths open
before the progress ofCreative Evolution. It will be found earlier in this
book; and it was a quarrel of monks.
To him even what was momentary was
momentous. Everything is Being;but it is not true that everything is Unity.
The
light filtered, pale-coloured, through windows of anaemic glass.
Ellen was
still snoring, with heavy youthful snores. She raised her eyes for a moment,
and they began immediately tostray.
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