О молитве и созерцательной жизни

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the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ON PRAYER AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE BY S. THOMAS AQUINAS BY THE VERY REV. HUGH POPE, O.P., S.T.M. AUTHOR OF "THE CATHOLIC STUDENT'S 'AIDS' TO THE BIBLE," ETC. WITH A PREFACE BY VERY REV. VINCENT McNABB, O.P., S.T.L. R. & T. WASHBOURNE, LTD. PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON AND AT MANCHESTER, BIRMINGHAM, AND GLASGOW 1914 _All rights reserved_ Nihil Obstat. J.P. ARENDZEN, D.D., Censor Deputatus. Imprimatur. EDM. CAN. SURMONT, Vicarius Generalis. Westmonasterii, _Die 20 Septembris, 1913._ "Te Trina Deitas unaque poscimus Sic nos Tu visita, sicut Te colimus: Per Tuas semitas duc nos quo tendimus, Ad lucem, quam inhabitas!" S. Thomas's Hymn for Matins on the _Feast of Corpus Christi_. PREFACE The present generation in the fervour of its repentance is like to cast off too much. So many false principles and hasty deductions have been offered to its parents and grandparents in the name of science that it is becoming unduly suspicious of the scientific method. A century ago men's minds were sick unto death from too much science and too little mysticism. To-day the danger is that even the drawing-rooms are scented with a mysticism that anathematizes science. At no time since the days of S. Thomas was the saint's scientific method more lacking. Everywhere there is need for a mystic doctrine, which in itself is neither hypnotism nor hysteria, and in its expression is are scented with a mysticism that anathematizes science. At no time since the days of S. Thomas was the saint's scientific method more lacking. Everywhere there is need for a mystic doctrine, which in itself is neither hypnotism nor hysteria, and in its expression is neither superlative nor apostrophic, lest the hungered minds of men die of surfeit following on starvation. The message and method of S. Thomas are part of that strange rigidity of the thirteenth century which is one of the

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