The New Review July 1941

The constitution of Japan has to defer to the divinity of the Emperor the influence of the Elder Statesmen and the power of the Army and the Navy. [...] They refer to the religious differences the unequal development of the people the illiteracy of the masses the social strata the predominance of agriculture. [...] It is necessary therefore that the final end of the universe be the good of the intellect ; but the good of the intellect is truth.20 THE NEW REVIEW of Aquinas was an age of metaphysicians. [...] Of God and man and the God-Man ; of the Holy Ghost of the Angles and of the Eucharist these parts of the Thomist theology are each a nec plus ultra ; tremendous is their very name. [...] In the middle of the enquiry into Penance in the Tertia which wa§ to be devoted to that Sacrament Aquinas dies at the age of forty-nine having boxed the compass of the highest of problems and things human and divine.