Modern science offered not a vestige of proof, or a theory of connection between its forces, or any scheme of reconciliation between thought and mechanics; while St. Thomas at least linked together the joints of his machine.

现代科学没有提供任何证据，也没有提供其力量之间联系的理论，也没有提供任何思想与力学之间的调和方案；而圣托马斯至少将他的机器的关节连接在一起。