“We have, among innumerable other works, the Summa theologica, surely one of the most amazing and stupendous products of the human mind. …never before or since has the wide world been so neatly boxed and compassed, so completely and confidently understood, every detail of it fitted, with such subtle and loving precision, into a consistent and convincing whole.”

— Carl L. Becker

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)

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American historian 1873–1945

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