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And it will be obvious that thereis a sort of popular parallel to it in the
fact that St. For instance, it is a recognized military maxim that armiesdepend
upon roads. We canturn England upside down if we like; but its England thatwe
like, whichever way up.
Never had a notion of what Iwas doing when I picked up
a cabbage and wore it for a wager. And yet in a sense he would fit into a much
larger or a muchsmaller book.
And even in war youoften fight as much with
cabbages as cannon-balls.
And the mood that has concentratedon him is doubtless
very different from that which popularisedSt.
Yes, interrupted the excitable
White, and do you know what hesaid to me when I first said it?
If two friars
are to be presented as a pair of Heavenly Twins,the obvious comparison is
between St. They saw the same problem fromdifferent angles, of simplicity and
subtlety; St. I have said that these can only be portraits in outline.
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redistributing thisfile. This was wearing thin even in thenineteenth century;
it will be impossible in the twentieth.
In a constructive sense, it was
moreimportant than the Reformation.
Lastly, it follows that it is practically
impossible to dealadequately with the theology.
What they were really doing,
and especially what St. Thomas that were veryseverely intellectual, we may note
that in him as in St. He was merely a survival; but he showed a perplexing
dispositionto survive.
There is hardly room, even as it is, for such a figure
insuch a frame.
Whatsthe good of talking about white elephants in countries
wherethey are only white elephants?
He was merely a survival; but he showed a
perplexing dispositionto survive. In the common phrase, fond as he wasof green
fields, he did not let the grass grow under his feet.
I bet he began by saying:
I dont profess to be a religious man.
It would be futile to make a sketchof
St.
Thomas;besides this primary idea of a central common sense that isnourished
by the five senses.
I bet he began by saying: I dont profess to be a religious
man.
Whats the good of talking to me about a World State, growled Hood.
Francis
was very vivid in his poems and rather vague in his documents;St. We talk about
tall stories, but a tall story may mean a truestory in colloquial
Lithuanian.
Without that, I could not place my historical figure in
history.
The dark trees seemed to spring up to twicetheir height as in a
nightmare.
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