A welcome and valuable annex to the layman's insight into St. Thomas' psychology and optimistic epistemology. By contrasting the saint's reasoning with modernity's variable theories in psychological method and research, it is distinctive in placing a demanding and compelling subject in its proper pastoral and vocational context. The simplicity of scholastic method makes Mr. Gillespie's work easy reading. In so far as it weaves together the vital epistemic axioms, with clear definitions, it is a powerful and explicit riposte to the prevailing artificial calibrated modelling of the mind. In politics and ethics, it is also a definitive challenge to civic powers blinded by false philosophy and ideas in legal and educational theory and practise. Donald Cameron, Editor Ave Verum Editae