" All I have written seems chaff to me." Thus six months before his
death spoke the greatest mind of the Middle Ages. He had up to this
time lived a life full of labour, lecturing, writing, dictating,
and praying; and now after having received a revelation he laid
aside his pen and would write no more. His favourite disciple, with
a directness characteristic of him, asked him why he would not
write when he was in the midst of a great work; to which he simply
replied, "I cannot." Being pressed still further he again said, " I
cannot, for all that I have written seems chaff to me." This
incident, well attested as it is, is so clearly sincere that no
interpretation of it can rob it of its grandeur and pathos. The
words were spoken by a man still only in his prime, as far as years
go, but one whom incessant labour and devotion to a high cause had
brought, at the age of forty nine, into the valley of the shadow.
His name is one that all men of education profess to know. His fame
is noised abroad scarcely less by those who ignorantly contemn,
than by those who injudiciously worship him. But his life, his real
concrete life, is still in many ways a closed book. For while one
class of men look on him as a great intellect, and another as a
great holiness, the human lines of Aquinas have been singularly
neglected. His holiness and his greatness in the eyes of a critical
generation will depend, not on the mysteries of his extraordinary
raptures, but on the way in which he a man bore himself in the
jostle of life with men. If this has not been overlooked by his
many biographers it has, for the most part, been undervalued, and
it is fitting that in this age, which bears some resemblance to the
Renaissance in the re-discovery of the enduring masterpieces of
olden time either from neglect or undiscerning attention, some
attempt should be made to show Aquinas to the world, not as a saint
on a pedestal or a statue above the rostrum, but as one faring in
the road of life and faring manfully. This work contains: OFFICE OF
CORPUS CHRISTI THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER THE NATURE OF TRUTH
DETERMISISM Os GRACE CHARITY ASD FRIESDSHIP RELIGIOS ASD HOLISESS
THE SERVICE OF GOD PURITY THE SAISTS THE INCARNATIOS Os FAITH THE
TEACHINGS OF PHILOSOPHY ASD FAITH. SUPERSTITION PAPAL POWER THE
VIRGIN MARY THE RELATIONS OF MATTER ASD FORM PRIMARY MATTER FORM
ASD NATURE OF UNITY OF FORM THE SOUL OF GOD CONTEMPLATION THOUGHT,
MEDITATION, AND CONTEMPLATION THE MODE OF CREATION THE INTELLECT
AND KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE AND THE SENSES SENSE AND UNDERSTANDING THE
PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNANCE MORALITY OF BUYING ASD SELLING USURY
NATIONALITY AND THE STATE THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY FAVOURITISM DUTY
OF A CITIZEN IN REGARD TO KNOWN CRIME THE COMMON GOOD WAR THE LOVE
OF OUR NEIGHBOUR FRIENDSHIP HABITS THE SCOPE OF NATURAL SCIENCE
SEMI ; AL CAUSES. THE ELEMENTS NATURAL SELECTION AND PURPOSE ACTION
THROUGH A MEDIUM PLANTS AND SEX WEIGHT AND DENSITY ACCIDIA WOMAN
BEAUTY PERFECTION AND MARRIAGE. LANGUAGE THE USE OF ANIMALS SIMONY
SCANDAL WHETHER WE ALWAYS WISH FOR WHAT IS GOOD LETTER OF SAINT
THOMAS NON-BAPTISED INFANTS AND THE VISION OF GOD APPENDIX
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