" Senior came to learn that the Catholic Church respected the integrity and the goodness of the created order, and that her teachers would say, with Saint Thomas Aquinas, that the grace of God perfects nature rather than supplants it, and that all of our knowledge, including what we know about God himself, comes to us first through the senses. "

― Anthony Esolen , Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World