the doctrine of St Thomas Aquinas, and his followers the Thomists, chiefly with regard to predestination and grace. There is some doubt what the true genuine thomism is, but there are authors who distinguish the thomism of St Thomas from that of the dominicans. Others again make thomism no other than a kind of jansenism disguised: but jansenism, it is known, has been condemned by the popes, which pure thomism never was: in effect, the writings of Alvarez and Lemos, who were appointed by their order to lay down and defend, before the holy see, the dogmata of their school, have since been reputed the rule of pure thomism.