Siris

 To the fourth one proceeds thus.  It seems that it is not necessary that there be habitudes. For habitude is that by which something is d...

 Today is the feast of St. Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church. From the De domini corpori , on the Eucharist: That it is nothing but gra...

  The rhetorician ornaments [his speech] with the vox significativa, as when he says “April” and “May”, which are more beautiful words than...

 The spirituality and immortality of the soul establish that the state cannot be the source or fount of the most fundamental rights, and tha...

 To the third one proceeds thus. It seems that habitude does not involve order to act. For anything acts according as it is actual. But th...

  Hard to Be Inspired It is hard to be inspired, blinded by the light, your brain in visions fired, wandering in the night, a traveler in un...

 The novelist claims to be a realist; and he has as much right to defend realism as other novelists had to defend romanticism. But he is out...