Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

[i 2] Summary of Contents.
Tendency in Aquinas to reduce the distinction to a higher and
lower good..... .
. 281
The Clementine view struggles in his mind with the Augustinian 285
Case of infants dying in original sin ; Augustine s doctrine . 287
What the schoolman could not contradict he could . explain 288
Aquinas mild solution of the difficulty
289
The position laid down in the case of infants cannot stop short
of a wider application. ....... 290
291
The author s remarks on this question
CHAPTER XI.
CONCLUSION.
Need of a philosophical perception of human ignorance . . 293
This only to be attained by close . . . introspection 294
Activity of human mind opposed to passive attitude of thought 295
The human mind has a luminous and dark side . . . 29fi
The deeper sense of ignorance not unattended by danger.
Butler and Pascal .
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298
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To Hume and Hobbes we may oppose
Tendency of controversial minds to force incomprehensible
truths to their logical results ...... 301
With respect to the Divine power S. Augustine took up an illconsidered
position ........ 30$
The mixture of weakness and power in some leading minds
makes the task of estimating authorities difficult . . 30
S. Augustine and his school commenced with an assumption
which no modern philosopher would allow.... 304
The common sense of mankind acknowledges contradictory
truths 30(
The Pelagian and Augustinian systems both arise upon partial
and exclusive bases ........ 30*3
Wherein the predestinarian is at fault 30*3
The Pelagian, on the other hand, offends against the first
principles of piety ........ 30
The seventeenth article of our Church has allowed a place for
a predestinarian school ....... 31]
Proposal in the last century for a change in its . . wording 31$
The object for which this present life is given us is not philo
sophy and reasoning ........ 31^
The propensity to over-estimate particular or supposed truths
shown alike by the Roman Catholic and Protestant . . 31 1
In the limited state of our capacities those who differ from one
another should remember that they may differ not in hold
ing
truth and error but different sides of the same truth . 311