Quote#World
We have, among innumerable other works, the Summa theologica, surely…
Quote byCarl Lotus Becker · 1873–1945
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932).
English (original)
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 Lotus Becker
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