Read the excerpt below and answer the question. The first thing to be said about St. Thomas as an anthropologist, is that he is really remarkably like the best
sort of modern biological anthropologist. ... He adopts
almost literally the Huxleyan definition of the Agnostic
method; "To follow reason as far as it will go"; the only question is-where does it go? He lays down the almost
startlingly modern or materialist statement; "Every thing that is in the intellect has been in the senses.
The
Schoolmen may have shot too far beyond our limits in pursuing the Cherubim and Seraphim. But in asking
whether a man can choose or whether a man will die, they were asking ordinary questions in natural history;
a like whether a cat can scratch or whether a dog can smell. Nothing calling itself a complete Science of Man
can shirk them. ("The Permanent Philosophy": pp. 1-2)
Read the excerpt below. Then, explain why G. K. Chesterton claims that, "St. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps more than he is
anything else, iS a great anthropologist." Your answer should be at least 150 words.

she is later raised by him and his wife, madame valmonde, who sees her as gift from god, as the couple cannot have their own children. later, desiree falls in love with a wealthy man, armand aubigny, and they get married.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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