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The terrors of the year two thousand

This is Internet Archive Canada's 250,000 Digitized Text First published by the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, in 1949 and reissued in 1984 to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of its author The following excerpt is from the Preface to the re-issued edition: St. Michael's honours the memory of its most distinguished professor of philosophy who lectured in its classrooms almost annually from 1929 to 1972, and who was the founder and life-time director of its Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Gilson died in Auxerre in Burgundy, France, on 19 September 1978. PIMS mounts a yearly Etienne Gilson Lecture Series. to carry on his exemplary tradition of teaching. Professor Gilson, an exemplary Catholic, possibly the most renowned medievalist of his day, influenced hundreds of graduate students, many of whom teach philosophy today in the universities and colleges of the United States and Canada. His thrilling lectures were filled to overflowing. A list of his publications contains over twelve hundred articles and full-length books. Gilson’s bibliography of publication contains over 1200 items. Gilson’s work enjoyed renewed interest on the cusp of the millenn

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