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Excerpt from Brownson's Quarterly Review, 1861, Vol. 2 If we understand the learned and philoso bical author, he embraces, under the head of Nature and 'race, all that part of theology, natural and revealed, which relates to the second cycle, or return of existences or creatures to God as their lastend, - that is, all that part of theology which relates to God as the F inal Cause, in distinction from that which relates to God in himself, and as First Cause. He contends that this, according to St. Thomas, the second part of the ology, may be treated by itself, independently of the first part, or that which treats of the existence, nature and at tributes of God, of the Unity and the Trinity of God, and of God as Creator, or First Cause. He says St. Thomas, in the pars semmda of his Summa T keologwa, takes a fresh start, and might as well have treated it in the first, as in the second place. It is impossible to understand the dc Dee T rino till we have studied the de Deo Una and it is im possible to understand dc Gratia, till we have studied dc Actibus Humanis. But that ortion of science on the one hand which contains the dc eo Uno et T Tina, and that portion, on the other hand, which contains the dc Actions Humanis and the dc Gmtz'a - these are mutual] inde pendent; it is a matter of indifference which is stujied be fore the other. Upon these two independent por tions is founded the doctrme of the Incarnation, and all which follows. But how can we scientifically treat dc Ao tibne manis independently of the de 060 Creators? Of man's end before we have treated of his origin? Or of de Gratia before de Incamatione, the origin and end of the new creation, or life of grace? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
