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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF THOUGHT. 1. From these types of thinking let us return to thought itself, and note the higher principle of its existence. Not content with enjoying the light of day, let us look to the sun whence emanates that light. From thinking we pass to the principle of all thinking and all knowing. Truth is of the mind. It is the equation between the intellect and its object. The three elements of every proposition— of every truth apprehended — are subject, object, and their relation. Now, that which we apprehend as truth is truth not because we apprehend it as such, but because it exists as such in the light of the Unchanging Truth that is independent of all modes of apprehension. Without that light our intellectual vision were as darkened as our bodily eyes without the light of the sun. This is the teaching of great thinkers and great saints. In this simple manner does St. Augustine express himself : " If what you say is seen to be true by both of us, and what I say is seen to be true by both of us, where, I would ask, do we see it? Assuredly, neither you see it in me nor I in you; but we bothsee it in that unchanging truth which is above our minds."1 "But," adds another great Doctor of the Church, the angelic Thomas of Aquin, "unchanging truth is contained in the eternal reasons of things, and therefore our soul knows all things as true in those reasons."2 The intellectual light by which our mind apprehends and pronounces upon truth — that which makes it evident to us that two and two make four, or that it is impossible for a thing to be and not be at the same time, or that every effect has a cause, — that light is in some sense a participation in the Uncreated Light that contains in itself the eternal principles of things and the eternal reasons for all a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780548107881
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 630 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548107882
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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