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vii Acknowledgments A number of fellow Augustinian scholars offered advice, friendship, and good conversation over the duration of this writing, among whom I would like to thank the following: Oliver O’Donovan, Mark Edwards, Fr. David Meconi, S.J., Chad Gerber, Matthew Siebert, Michael Siebert, and Peter Burnell. Melissa Folan provided excellent editorial assistance in the final stages of revision. I wish to thank James Kruggel and the editorial staff at the Catholic University of America Press for their help and encouragement. Three anonymous readers offered many excellent suggestions; among them I thank Dr. Raymond Canning, who allowed his name to be known. Chapter three of this book appeared in an earlier form as “The Perils of Skepticism: The Moral and Educational Argument of Contra Academicos,” in the International Philosophical Quarterly 43, no. 3 (September 2009): 333–50. Permission to reprint this material here is gratefully acknowledged. Not least, mention should be made of the remarkable lady, my wife, Anna Domini Topping, who has fed, clothed, and kept our children in good order during so many years of extended paucity of body but not, I trust, of mind and heart. This book is dedicated to my parents and grandparents. ...

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