What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly scept...ical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote The Canterbury Tales and his old age... Made beautiful with song; and as I read I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note Of lark and linnet, and from every page Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet, the dramatist, the novelist are free to exercise their imagination as widely as they choose. But the historian may not b...e allowed so long a tether. He must fulfill his function as creative artist only within very rigid limits. He cannot invent what went on in the mind of St. Thomas of Canterbury. The poet can. He cannot suppress inconvenient minor characters and invent others who more significantly underline the significance of his theme. The novelist can. The dramatist can. The historian, as Sir Phillip Sydney has said, "is captive to the truth of a foolish world." Not only is he captive to the truth of a foolish world, but he is captive to a truth he can never fully discover, and yet he is forbidden by his conscience and his training from inventing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, ...every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be though...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »