Read this excerpt from g. k. chesterton's "the permanent philosophy." then, explain how st. thomas aquinas reconciles faith and reason based on this excerpt. your answer should be at least 150 words. {st. thomas says, quite straightforwardly, that he himself believes this world has a beginning and end; because such seems to be the teaching of the church; the validity of which mystical message to mankind he defends elsewhere with dozens of quite different arguments. aquinas says he sees no particular reason, in reason, why this world should not be a world without end; or even without beginning. and he is quite certain that, if it were entirely without end or beginning, there would still be exactly the same logical need of a creator. anybody who does not see that, he gently implies, does not really understand what is meant by a creator. ("the permanent philosophy"; p. 9)

Published in 1849, by was inspired by the writer's experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the mexican-american war.

Mr and mrs van daan murmur their welcome what are the playwrights indicating by using the word murmur?

Read and key the following paragraph. 1"the final phase of franklin's public service is themost spectacular. 2after his return to america he waselected to the second continental congress and served withjefferson and john adams on the committee which drafted thedeclaration of independence. 3then, in 1776, he wasappointed one of the three commissioners to seek military andnaval assistance from france. 4for nearly ten years pariswas his center of operations, and, in large part because ofhis personal popularity, he secured the much-needed supportof france and spain and eventually negotiate thetreaty of paris (1783), by which england recognized americanindependence. 5when he returned to america in 1785 he wasold and ill, yet he found strength to serve as a delegate tothe constitutional convention, and to continue his work withmany humanitarian and scientific societies." type the key words for sentence's 2. 3. 4. 5.