Our thesis falls into four main sections. First of all we shall
give a very brief account of Platonism, or rather, these aspects
of it that most concern us. Then we shall study in the same
restricted manner, such parts of the teaching of Augustine,
Bonaventura, and others who have deeply influenced our mystics.
We shall also notice the general bearing of the doctrines of
Aquinas and the Victorines. The third section deals with such
matters in the teaching of the English mystics as have value for a
thesis on the philosophic character of their mysticism. The
fourth and main section deals with that teaching from the point
of view of philosophy, and then ends with a general conclusion
