On Prayer and the Contemplative Life by St. Thomas AquinasThe present generation in the fervour of its repentance is like to cast off too much. So many false principles and hasty deductions have been offered to its parents and grandparents in the name of science that it is becoming unduly suspicious of the scientific method. A century ago men's minds were sick unto death from too much science and too little mysticism. To day the danger is that even the drawing rooms are scented with a mysticism that