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HIS EXISTENCE and HIS NATURE

Thomistic Solution of Certain Agnostic Antinomies

By

THE REV. R. GARRIGOU-LAGRANGE, O.P.

MASTER IN THEOLOGY

PROFESSOR OF DOGMATIC THEOLOGY IN THE

COLLEGIO ANGELICO, ROME; MEMBER OF THE

ROMAN ACADEMY OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Translated from the Fifth French Edition
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