To step out of these presumptions, prejudices and private
disappointments, into the world of St. Thomas, is like escaping from a
scuffle in a dark room into the broad daylight. St. Thomas says, quite
straightforwardly, that he himself believes this world has a beginning
and end; because such seems to be the teaching of the Church; the
validity of which mystical message to mankind he defends elsewhere with
dozens of quite different arguments...But Aquinas says he sees no particular reason, in reason, why
this world should not be a world without end; or even without beginning.
And he is quite certain that, if it were entirely without end or
beginning, there would still be exactly the same logical need of a
Creator. Anybody who does not see that, he gently implies, does not
really understand what is meant by a Creator.
-St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)
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