Excerpt from The Religious State: According to the Doctrine of St. ThomasThis teaching succeeds better than any other in giving to the mind a spirit of recti tude, fortitude, and intelligence. It places man in the full possession of his reason and faith, delivering him from that narrowness and those vain fears and errors which paralyze so many souls called to the performance of great works. For when a ray of the Angelic Sun has lit up the mind, it endows the heart with a rare consistency and an indomitable energy it helps us e¿icaciously both to will and to persevere, because it places us really upon the supernatural ground of the Roman Church, in the sight of God, under the direct impression of His grace, in the calm of a conscience which joyously sacrifices all its possessions to. That only Good who alone deserves to be loved Without measure 'and who alone can be adored without remorse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.