The towering name of St. Thomas Aquinas

"...and, in philosophy, which determines all, the towering name of St. Thomas Aquinas. He established during that great time a body of co- ordinated doctrine and philosophy which no one had yet possessed. The scale of his work is on a par with its cultural value. He seemed to have put his seal upon the civilization which he adorned, and, through his establishment of right reason in philosophy, his marriage of Catholicism with the Aristotelian wisdom, to have set up a structure that would endure for ever and give a norm to our civilization."

~Hilaire Belloc: The Crisis of Our Civilization. (1937)

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"Apotheosis of Thomas Aquinas" by Francisco de Zurbaran.