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"Neoscholasticism is not immune to this malady; when it wanted to be a-Christian, it quickly degenerated into an abstract formalism whose utter boredom is bearable only by its authors, for to bore is not always boring. Sometimes it is asked with concern why this philosophy is so lifeless. The reason is that it is deliberately tied to a metaphysics that has no object."

"There are minds today which, in their enthusiasm for the Thomistic notion of esse, which they have just rediscovered, would be ready to sacrifice essences to it at the risk of making Thomism a forerunner of contemporary existentialism. But no being other than God would be possible without essences. Essence is the condition of the very possibility of the existence of finite beings."