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Thomas Aquinas' conception of the human soul and the relationship to all the virtues,

and, you know, I just need you to know this, okay? It's going to make the talk so much easier.

You know, when it comes to virtues, we can kind of think of them sometimes like this in a very philosophical, dry way.

And again, philosophy actually is not a very dry thing when you get to know it.

I mean, the very rude of the word means a love of wisdom, that pursuit of that in love.

And instead of starting with just this, I wanted to give you a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I know that's a domestic institute,

we should be sticking with Dominicans.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Jesuit,

but I went to graduate school at a Jesuit university,

so I hope you'll forgive me.

So, Gerard Manley Hopkins graduate school at a Jesuit University, so I hope you'll forgive me.

Jared Manley Hopkins, later in his life, after he passed away, a number of his poems were published in the early 20th century, and this one is one of my favorites.

It goes, as King Fissers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame, as tumbled over rim and roundy wells, stones

ring.

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