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Tells Of Life Of Mediaeval St. Thomas
Father Byrne Cives Interesting Talk
the
were
their
A lecture on St. Thomas Aquinas Father Byrne at was given by Rosaryhill, yesterday when the Dam.ran каст celebrated Feast Day of the Salut.
and Several poems rendered by the friars pupils, and a discussion was held an the thesis tilnici sunt er caritate inimici diligendi, non quidem qua acd qua homines.
Kongs
and
In his talk, which was entitled "A
Medigeval Great Byrne said:
"And
Manichees!"
Thinker,"
kettle
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at Reinsurance Fund and to court For the King believed in etiquette as is shown by his charge torward $716,512.54 in respect of the
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has written) thua draws the true But who was this man thumping a King's table? A rustic strayed into picture:
The age of Aquinas was "n time of bluest court? By no means! The blood of the royalty of the day flow-wild disturbance. nobody knew who
Direct the Manichecs of the Midi; or tha ed in his veins. He claimed Bar-would win in that weller: Islam, or barosta as his granduncle, Fre
Frederick II. the Wonder of the World, as his two-faced and mocking Emperor; or
the Crusades, or the old Orders Christendom. Some had cousin, and the Holy Roman peror too. In the Universities
vivid feeling that everything was Paris and Germany his name was a breaking up; and that all the
recent Nor, it would seem, experiments were part of the same household one. WRA he unknown London.
If ever there was an inter-dissolution. There were two things that such men regarded as the signs national
man, such
Was of ruin; one was the awful appari- Thomas Aquinas, who. In Friar's
to Oxford
a man
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of
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à Other
of Greek god supported by habit. sat at the King's table because tion of Aristotle out of the East, a the King had bidden him there. He Arabian worshippers; and the was international in the sense that, was the new freedom of the when the Western World was
of these Thomas, was linked. He
(p.83). With both
St
International in ita spiritusional in champlon of Aristotle against the
and, at least ideally,, its imperial aspirations the Holy Roman Empire--he belonged not only by his whole soul but by his to the universal life's achievement spiritual realm, by blood he belonged to the other.
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Christianity had to struggle until troduce to you St. Thomas Aquinis, because I consider it a revelation of in the fourth century its triumph Then came the fall A seemed assured. Ap-c the single purpose of his life. parently the King did, too, for his of the Empire with all the disturb- immediate reaction was to order his ing forces of the Barbarlaris. It was becretaries to hasten to the absorbed the moment of its great triumph ar
absorbed not until the thirteenth century that guest and note down his though i rived. Out of
an apperently ill- Whether in the
privacy his Dominican cell,
assorted company; out of disparate At a king' social, intellectual, and religious ideas banquet. his mind was bent thing, the quest of truth, but God's oil around, Christianity was to win truth. Fluttering after truth is one the victory of unity. A mighty
the with
Mcdern work: and the architect of the trans- 12ng-popular
formation to whom we must give Mind-seeking truth is another. And |
was St. Thomas Thomas Aquinas stands out not only pride of place
mediaeval In the
world,
which
the Aquinas. flutterers have despised, but he will He brought about a double revolu- as one of the tion. Up to this Plato or Platonism stand out for all time on to swayed the intellectual world. The nankind: seekers, do I say? No! latonic stress on the higher life of not a mere seeker but a Ander; the spirit seemed to harmonise with finder of the one truth, and only the Christian supernatural outlook. truth, which can set us free.
St. Thomas, ho ever, saw the weak- ness of a doctrine which found but shadows of reality in the
the senses, and considered escape from the body as We might say that Thomas Aquinns the apogee of man. On the contrary stood Armly on the rock of the for him man was only fully Middle Ages, and that a return to when he was body as well as sattl. will whe and his quest of truth
Does not the Incarnation teach the Renaissance nob hasten the fall of the
nobility of their mysterious union. stur which has cost so much twilight The Word was mode flesh"? More on our earth, and is in no small pl
any previous write deeply than measure responsible for the morass Aquinas saw the beauty of God's of doubt, the morass of unrest, the plan in all God's creatures. He shed morass of hatred in which man finds
nds new light on natural virtues and, by himself sinking to-day. To many pla
placing in relief, the rights and the s
suggestion of a return to the duties of man at his daily rounds, he thought of St. Thomas as the cure for hallowed Nature and man in a way modern ills would be like hunting unknown to the noley prophets of for alchemists to solve our economic, Naturalism and Humanism. troubles, or hinting that the witch's the aeroplane! boomstick That responsible thinkers can think
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The second revolution was his in so is not one of the least of the maladies of modern thought. For- sistence on the rights of reason, It tunately there is a revived interest the light of faith alone revealed the In Thomas Aquinas. It is significant supernatural, reason had its that one may take a degree at Oxford clear field of vision in science and in It dominated now in the litterae humaniores on natural philosophy. the works of St. Thomas, and one those fields. In the clear mind of St. may listen to him under the aegis of Thomas there was no place for a the London University.
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Professor Grandgent of Horvard University in hia Old and New, speaking of the period which follow- ed the Renaissance does not hesitate to write:
IT
vast
und
for
Huxley
reason: between could be no war science and religion. We are dslrcel by the Modern Mind to think of St. Thomas and his disciples as encased In a shroud of authority, blindly following a masterful Aristotle. A "The Dark Ages-an epoch in the curious case of those who live in world's history beginning with or glass houses throwing stones, shortly after the French Revolution they are the very ones to ostracise us marked by a general extension of if we do not bow to u "Darwin says,"
in or "Einstein proclaims" or teaching and education,
increase of self out teache
to say nothing of these
Wells by Ignorance. It was induced by the whose gospel is made gradual triumph of democracy, and
acy, and Van Loon, or a Johnson's Court will last until the masses, now be rationalist. Against such
:stitution of come arbiters of taste and
reason St. Thomas la science. rst to protest, for he writes: "the" shall have been raised to frivileged study of philosophy does not consist formerly occupied by the
In classes.
the knowledge what men think,
of but in the understanding of truth." (De Coelo et Mundo 1, 22) His een- temporaries found that into the quest of truth
he introduced" "a "new method, new arguments, a new order of questions, new light
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vast audience of listeners-in who had heard the talk on Aquinas und that on Newton, puts the question “Uses | Aquinas or Newlon.come nearest to what we think a man who is devoted to the pursult of knowledge ought to the facts before And with them he replies "I really
expect the vast majority to say Aquinas."
"Truth is a fixed stor":" on that or the eyes of Aquinos were ever
"The Firefly" (King's Theatre, to- flxed. Like the wise men of old, day),Adaptation of the famous who came from the East to Beth-
slar
lehem, if a cloud got between him Otto Harbach-Rudolph Friml operat- ta with Jeanette MacDonald and and the star, he worked ceaselessly to get behind the veil, as he ndvia-Allan Jones in the principal singing
music and ed his student, "to penetrale to the roles. Rich.
brilliant truth."
uniforms of the Napoleonic period Newton advises a friend to study made this film an outstanding suc- warfare: Aquinas came from family of soldiers but he had learnt cess. early that "better is wisdom than
"Ever Since Eve" (Queen's Thea- weapons of war" and that the bands crossed in prayer are more powerful tre, to-day). The theme is by no than hands grasping the sword hit means original, but the director and It is the great lesson which the the two stars, Marion Davies and Modern Mind needs. Oht If only it
would turn to the school of Aquinasi Robert Montgomery, have succeeded To-day the world is sick at heart lifting the aim up to a high stand- for want of unity and for its revoit ard of entertainment, succeeds. against reason. Need I remind you not so much on the plot itself, for that writers of all shades of thought the moves, very often are known
re headlining the fact from the
housetops? In the Political Quarter beforehand, as on the fine treatment ly for January 1836, Bertrand Russell of the stars and the supporting cast maintains that the characteristic of which includes Frank McHugh, Allan the modern ngo is that it is anti- Jenkins and Patsy Kelly, rational: In the Hibbert Journal for
the
A MEDIAEVAL THINKER
Anril 1937, Professor De Burgh "The Perfect Specimen" (Albara-
It is
earned surprising what
writes on The Modern Gospel of bra Theatre, to-day).—Errol Flynn Ignorance" can be found even in an
Unreason.
is the idest hero for such - a story. In his recent Emeritus Professor.
In man St. Thomas studies work Some Great Political Idealists
meeting-place of two worlds, the Nevertheless a little more intelligent have made his role of the Christian Era, Dr. Hearnshaw,
spiritual and the temporal. If, on ucting would
more entertaining to the of the London University, assures us
one side, man is cousin to the rauch that "the only serious problem that In 1933 the British Broadcasting animals, on the other he is but "a audience. As it is, most of the disturbed the bealida serenity of Corporation arranged for a series of little less than the angels," He has latiglia are supplied by Joan Blondell, either St. Thomas or Dante was the twelve talks on "Some Makers of the to work out his destiny, an immor-Still, the film is above the average and should find a wide lal one, on this earth, in the family, standard problem of the relation between the Modern Spirit." The Makers select-
In society, under organised law of appeal.. two powers, the spiritual and the ed were St. Thomas Aquinas, Luther, temporal," (p:51). The
epithet Newton, Rousseau, Goethe, Bentham. government. In grand outline, with
"Pl For a King” (Oriental Thes- St. Thomas shows Mediaeval with thinker
unerring touch, to the Darwin, Nietzche, Marx. Professor Modern Mind conjures up frozen, Macmurray, Grote Professor of the how his duties and rights in the tro, to-day)-A Joe E. Brown pic- thought, and many a Modern, whilst Philosophy of the Mind in the home, in social intercourse, and as a ture. If you like the stir, you'll-
University of London.
unit in the State are to be co-ordin-like this show, which has plenty of ready to give a condescending pat on
contributed an
ated and harmonised. A true philo- laughs. the shoulders to Thomas Aquinas baIntroductory talk, a rapid review of a great thinker, pitles him for the development from St. Thomes to afnident of having been born in an ave Newton, and a general summary of that was uniform, static, dragooned the ground covered. It is surely b
muit also envisage Jacob's ladder to-day-Though Madeleide Carroll between Heaven and earth, Dante and Francis Lederer Fare ostensibly Into servile obedience to an unques-revelation of the new swing of the tioned authority. Nothing could be pendulum not only that the B.n.C.understood this: he makes Bt. Thomaso stars, acting hungurs no in Mu
"quench the thirst of the pilgrima cha Auer in the role of the marrying further from the truth. Chesterton, should single out Bl. Thomas Aquinee in his St. Thomas Aquinas, (to my for the series butt: afill more that she mounts the stairway of the bligh count 11mm LNA mind the most remarkable book he Professor Macmurray, addressing Lão, est heaven.
sopher must look back to the part ⠀ #It's All Yours" (MaSentis Theatre,
and forward to the future, but he
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