Read the excerpt below. then, explain why g. k. chesterton claims that, "st. thomas aquinas, perhaps more than he is anything else, is a great anthropologist." your answer should be at least 150 words.
{ the first thing to be said about st. thomas as an anthropologist, is that he is really remarkably like the best sort of modern biological anthropologist. he adopts almost literally the huxleyan definition of the agnostic method; "to follow reason as far as it will go"; the only question is-where does it go? he lays down the almost startlingly modern or materialist statement; "every thing that is in the intellect has been in the senses. the schoolmen may have shot too far beyond our limits in pursuing the cherubim and seraphim. but in asking whether a man can choose or whether a man will die, they were asking ordinary questions in natural history; like whether a cat can scratch or whether a dog can smell. nothing calling itself a complete science of man can shirk them. ("the permanent philosophy"; pp. 1-2)

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings