"There is nothing perhaps harder to defend and easier to attack than a system not clearly defined, at least in its principal parts. Its defenders waste their time in showing what is either beside the question or only touches the surface, and its adversaries, when they have pointed out the weak points in that which, true or false, has nothing to do with the truth of the system, settle the controversy in their own favour."
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The Physical System Of St. Thomas (1893)
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Giovanni Maria Cornoldi
Giovanni Maria Cornoldi (29 September 1822 – 18 January 1892) was an Italian Jesuit.
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