By Dr. Tobias Lanz
Again in print after sixty eight years, this anthology of essays is a vintage survey of the Catholic response to difficulties created by way of the commercial revolution and socialism and is a special milestone within the background of social suggestion. Reacting to the melancholy and the seeming inadequacies of capitalism and socialism, those thinkers contributed landmark essays at the issues of estate, craftsmanship, industrialism, and extra. With an advent by means of Hilaire Belloc, this quantity features a coherent illustration of 1 of the valuable colleges of concept utilising Christian thought to the socioeconomic difficulties of early- to mid-20th-century Europe. This paintings should be of curiosity to an individual involved in the heritage of social suggestion.
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He was chiefly instrumental in founding, with Mgr. Dey, the Midlands Catholic Land Association, and was its Honorary Secretary during the years that it was active, 1931 to 1936. He also edited the journal of the English Catholic Land Associations, The Cross and the Plough, from 1934 to 1946. ’s Weekly. Kenrick what came to be known as “the Birmingham Scheme,” a pamphlet entitled Unemployment: A Distributist Solution; his friendship with Kenrick spanned many years. In 1946 he wrote a short biography of GKC dedicated to Kenrick and entitled The Last of the Realists, though it was not published until 1948, and then only serialized in the Weekly Review because of wartime restrictions on paper.
It is clear that when that day dawns, the whole basis of our appeal will change. It will become, not so much a matter of charity, to which Governments are not prone, as one of justice. And justice is much more difficult to cut in public. Not only so, we can if necessary appeal with confidence, on a business basis to businessmen. Expediency herself, that genial but amoral soul, will fight for us. It is not too much to say that once the possibility has been demonstrated, the Land Movement will become, not only the just and the expedient, but the necessary policy for this country.
If he could not he would still die of starvation, not of knifelessness. But this thinking in terms of the inessential usable is at least as vital as the essential consumable is a product of the commercioindustrial world in which the critic had lived. It pervades much of the nineteenth century economic writings, and perhaps even more of those of today. One hears of the “agricultural industry” as if it had exactly the same importance as the “gramophone industry” to human welfare. , the manufacture of wireless sets as a substitute for weaving, just as, in an earlier age, manufacture generally was fostered at the expense of agriculture.