| Author Quoted | Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges |
| Title Quoted | Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/02/13 |
| Imprint | Paris : La Revue des Jeunes. 1944 |
| Quotation | On the other hand there could be a way of being humble and following Sertillanges, and nobody can say whether Mabillon was not a greater saint than de Rance. [Note 38: Jean Mabillon (1632-1707), the great Benedictine Maurist scholar, wrote Traite des etudes monastiques (1691) in response to de Rance's denunciation of monks engaged in scholarship, like Mabillon and his Maurist community.] But I have long since given up the idea that working with the kind of intellectual steam prescribed by Sertillanges for his Dominicans would be any vocation of mine. |
| Journal | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 281 |
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