The "Companion to the Summa' is now complete in four volumes of which this is the first. The whole series follows the order of St. Thomas and adheres strictly to his thought. It is suggested, however, that the beginner will find it easier to take the later volumes first as they are easier reading, being more concerned with matters of daily life. Yet even this, the deepest and most philosophical volume, makes use of the idiom of the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker.
The next two volumes complete St. Thomas's moral treatises; this one opens up his dogmatic tracts. In it, the layman is invited to look at the world and its Author. The existence of God, the divine attributes, the Trinity, creation, the world of the angels, of men, and of things are all examined profoundly, yet pleasantly, with an eye to the pertinence of the truths uncovered to the lives, loves and struggles of the men and women of our times.
Because these questions have received so much, and so derogatory, treatment from the thinkers of our times the book is lighted up with the constant shower of sparks that fly from the clash of modern ideas and eternal truths. It is in this field that the most disastrous modern mistakes have been made, as it is in the field that the most sublime truths for human living are to be found.