i am thinking this book is a book which it would be dangerous to be assumping 2 little of. dont trun ur back or fall asleep with the pgs, becuase look at these words which cut like knives.
"The appearance or bodily presence of St. Thomas Aquinas is really
easier to resurrect than that of many who lived before the age
of portrait painting. It has been said that in his bodily being
or bearing there was little of the Italian; but this is at the best,
I fancy an unconscious comparison between St. Thomas and St. Francis;
and at worst, only a comparison between him and the hasty legend
of vivacious organ-grinders and incendiary ice-cream men.
Not all Italians are vivacious organ-grinders, and very few Italians
are like St. Francis. A nation is never a type, but it is nearly
always a tangle of two or three roughly recognizable types.
St. Thomas was of a certain type, which is not so much common in Italy,
as common to uncommon Italians."
So remember: not all italians are vicous organ grinders...
OR ARE THEY????!? |
