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• Letter From the Cardinal Secretary of State.
• Letter From the Master-general of the Friar Preachers.
• First Part.: Treatise On Man.
• Question Lxxv.: of Man Who Is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: and In the First Place, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul. ( In Seven Articles. )
• Question Lxxvi.: of the Union of Body and Soul. ( In Eight Articles. )
• Question Lxxvii.: of Those Things Which Belong to the Powers of the Soul In General. ( In Eight Articles. )
• Question Lxxviii.: of the Specific Powers of the Soul. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxxix.: of the Intellectual Powers. ( In Thirteen Articles. )
• Question Lxxx.: of the Appetitive Powers In General. ( In Two Articles. )
• Question Lxxxi.: of the Power of Sensuality. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lxxxii.: of the Will. ( In Five Articles. )
• Question Lxxxiii.: of Free-will. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxxxiv.: How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things Beneath It. ( In Eight Articles. )
• Question Lxxxv.: of the Mode and Order of Understanding. ( In Eight Articles. )
• Question Lxxxvi.: What Our Intellect Knows In Material Things. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxxxvii.: How the Intellectual Soul Knows Itself and All Within Itself. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question Lxxxviii.: How the Human Soul Knows What Is Above Itself. ( In Three Articles. )
• Question Lxxxix.: of the Knowledge of the Separated Soul. ( In Eight Articles. )
• Question XC.: Of the First Production of Man’s Soul. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCI.: The Production of the First Man’s Body. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCII.: The Production of the Woman. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCIII.: The End Or Term of the Production of Man. ( In Nine Articles. )
• Question XCIV.: Of the State and Condition of the First Man As Regards His Intellect. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCV.: Of Things Pertaining to the First Man’s Will—namely, Grace and Righteousness. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCVI.: Of the Mastership Belonging to Man In the State of Innocence. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCVII.: Of the Preservation of the Individual In the Primitive State. ( In Four Articles. )
• Question XCVIII.: Of the Preservation of the Species. ( In Two Articles. )
• Question XCIX.: Of the Condition of the Offspring As to the Body. ( In Two Articles. )
• Question C.: Of the Condition of the Offspring As Regards Righteousness. ( In Two Articles. )
• Question CI.: Of the Condition of the Offspring As Regards Knowledge. ( In Two Articles. )
• Question CII.: Of Man’s Abode, Which Is Paradise. ( In Four 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.