Word: brabant
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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...Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism and Cotton Mather of non-Catholic Christianity. But may it not here be the signs of a growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante has been suspected of heresy for placing Siger de Brabant in Paradise. And so Mr. Wright would beatify his "fair Pagan." "For he who going through life, embraces virtue like a friend--he it is who attains to the Perfect City and the Happy Islands...