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Pure Spirit. Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries the imprimatur) and depth psychology...
...world, but in the realm of man's inner world, which links him mysteriously and universally to his fellow men. Yet, in turn, this vision of spiritual (rather than merely social) brotherhood did not lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist doctrine, that Reason is the handmaiden of Faith, has never really been overthrown." Where does such faith-with-reason lead America? Daven port did not live long enough to give more than clues to an answer. One clue lies in his feeling that the conflict between old-fashioned American individualism...
France's great Thomist philosopher, Etienne Gilson, thinks the choice indicated in the Gallup poll is not bad. The proof derived from order, he noted last week, was the one recommended...
...antiCommunist, the Reds have burrowed deep into the labor movement. Their biggest coup was the capture of Clotario Blest. White-haired Bachelor Blest, longtime head of the National Association of Government Employees, is a strange bedfellow for Communists. He is a Roman Catholic whose favorite reading is the Thomist philosophers. In 1952 the Communists invited Blest to Moscow along with other labor leaders. The fact that Holy Week services were allowed in some Moscow churches made a vivid impression on him. Since then, the Reds have had Blest's ear, and when he was elected, president of C.U.T. last...
With $655,000 from the Ford and Old Dominion Foundations, Adler will be assisted by 14 full-time scholars. He also intends to call in such notable consultants as Thomist Jacques Maritain and Yale Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers...