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• Letter From the Cardinal Secretary of State.
• Letter From the Master-general of the Friar Preachers.
• First Part.: Treatise On the Angels.
• Question L.: of the Substance of the Angels Absolutely Considered. ( In Five Articles. )
• Question Li.: of the Angels In Comparison With Bodies. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lii.: of the Angels In Relation to Place. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Liii.: of the Local Movement of the Angels. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Liv.: of the Knowledge of the Angels. ( In Five Articles. )
• Question Lv.: of the Medium of the Angelic Knowledge. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lvi.: of the Angels’ Knowledge of Immaterial Things. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lvii: of the Angels’ Knowledge of Material Things. ( In Five Articles. )
• Question Lviii.: of the Mode of the Angelic Knowledge. ( In Seven Articles. )
• Question Lix.: the Will of the Angels. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lx.: of the Love Or Dilection of the Angels. ( In Five Articles. )
• Question Lxi.: of the Production of the Angels In the Order of Natural Being. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxii.: of the Perfection of the Angels In the Order of Grace and of Glory. ( In Nine Articles. )
• Question Lxiii.: the Malice of the Angels With Regard to Sin. ( In Nine Articles. )
• Question Lxiv.: the Punishment of the Demons. ( In Four Articles. )
• Second Part.: Treatise On the Work of the Six Days
• Question Lxv.: the Work of Creation of Corporeal Creatures. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxvi.: On the Order of Creation Towards Distinction. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxvii: On the Work of Distinction In Itself. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxviii.: On the Work of the Second Day. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxix.: On the Work of the Third Day. ( In Two Articles. )
• Question Lxx.: of the Work of Adornment, As Regards the Fourth Day. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lxxi.: On the Work of the Fifth Day. ( In One Article. )
• Question Lxxii.: On the Work of the Sixth Day. ( In One Article. )
• Question Lxxiii.: On the Things That Belong to the Seventh Day. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lxxiv.: On All the Seven Days In Common. ( In Three Articles. )

LETTER FROM THE MASTER-GENERAL OF THE FRIAR PREACHERS.

• Collegio Angelico,

Roma,May 21st, 1911.

To the English Translators of the ‘Summa Theologica’ of St. Thomas.

Very Rev. and dear Fathers,

In translating into English the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas, you undertake a work which will bring profit to the Church and honour to the Dominican Order, and which, I hope, will be acceptable even to the laity; for what was said of the great doctor by his contemporaries is true for all time—that everybody can gather fruit from his writings, which are within the grasp of all. As a matter of fact, St. Thomas appeals to the light of reason, not in order to weaken the ground of faith, which is the Divine Reason, infinitely surpassing the reason of man, but, on the contrary, in order to increase the merit of faith by making us adhere more firmly to His revelation. For we see thereby how reasonable is our submission, how salutary it is to the mind, how profitable for our guidance, how joyful to the heart.

May your work contribute to this end! Thus it will be a sermon, preached through the press, by reason of its diffusion and duration more fruitful than that preached by word of mouth.

I bless you in our Holy Father, St. Dominic, and ask the help of your prayers for the Order and for myself.

Fr. Hyacinth M. Cormier, O.P.,
Master-General.