Clearly, the present-day Thomists have much to learn from Newman’s procedure [of conversing with secular culture]. They are painfully in the position of lacking that general culture, vitalized by a genuine community, which alone confers relevance. Gilson and Maritain do belong to a community in which a general awareness of our age at all its points is cultivated. Yet both of these men have evaded (or for lack of time and faculty have done nothing [for]) the application of Thomistic principles in the area of Freud, Fraser and Malinowski —psychology and anthropology. These are the areas of most intense contemporary awareness and they have not found their Newman. For example, in his discussions of poetic Maritain has never ventured into the question of taste. Yet this is the major nexus of educational discussion.