Balder Ex-Libris - Belloc HilaireReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearBelloc Hilaire - The jewsurn:md5:4a1599df0547dcddbd00ca1eb7e8a3622013-01-25T13:44:00+00:002013-01-25T13:46:19+00:00balderBelloc HilaireEnglandJew <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Belloc_Hilaire_-_The_jews_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The jews</strong><br />
Year : 1922<br />
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The object of tliis book is more modest, I fear, than that of much which has appeared upon that vital political matter, the relation between the Jews and the nations around them. It does not propose any detailed, still less, any positive legal solution to what has become a pressing problem, nor does it pretend to any complete solution of it. It is no more than a suggestion that any attempt to solve this problem ought to follow certain general lines which are essentially difierent from those attempted in Western Europe during the time immediately preceding our own. I suggest that, if the present generation in both parties to the discussion, the Jews and ourselves, will drop convention and make a principle of discussing the problem in terms of reality, we shall automatically approach a right solution. We have but to tell the truth in the place of the falsehoods of the last generation. Therefore, of the three principles upon which this essay reposes, the principle that concealment must come to. an end seems to me more important than the principle of mutual recognition, or even the principle of mutual respect. For it may well be that my judgment is at fault in the matter of Jewish national consciousness ; it may well be that I exaggerate it, and it is certain that one party to a debate cannot be possessed of the full knowledge required for ita settlement; the other side must be beard. But neither my judgment nor the judgment of any man can be at faùlt on the value of truth and the ultimate evil consequences of trying to build upon a lie. The English reader (less, I think, the American) will often find in my sentences a note that will seem to hlm fantastic. The quarre! is already acute here in London, but it has not here approached the limita which it has reached long ago elsewhere; and a man accustomed to the quieter air in which ali public affaira have, until recently, been debated in this country, may smile at what will seem to him odd and exa.ggerated fears. To this I would reply that the book has been written not only in the light of English, but of a general, experience. I will bargain that were it put into the bands of a jury chosen from the various nationalities of Europe and the United States it would be found too modera te in ita estimate of the peril it postulates. I would further ask the reader, who may not have appreciated how rapidly the peril approaches, to consider the distance traversed in the last few years. It is not very long since a mere discussion of the Jewish question in England was impossible. It is but a few years~ince the mere admission of it a;ppeared abnormal. The truth is that this question is not one which we open or close at will in any European nation. It is imposed successively upon one nation after another by the force of things. It is this force of things, this neceBBity for national weil-being, and for the warding off of disorder, which has thrust the Jewish question to-day upon a society stiJl reluctant to consider it and still hoping it may return to ite old neglect. lt cannot so retum. I will conclude by asking my Jewish, as weil as my non-Jewish, readers to observe that I have left out every persona! allusion and every element of mere recrimination. I have carefully avoided the mention of particular examples in public life of the friction between the Jews and ourselves and even examples drawn from past history. With these I could often have strengthened my argument, and I would certainly have made my book a great deal more readable. I have left out everything of the kind because, though one can always ronse interest in this way, it excites enmity between the opposing parties. Since my object is to reduce that enmity, which has already become dangerous, I should be insincere indeed if from mere purpose of enlivening this essay I had stooped to exasperate feeling. I could have made the book far stronger as a piece of polemic and indefinitely more amusing as a piece of record, but I have not written it as a piece of polemic or as a piece of record. I have written it as an attempt at justice. <strong>...</strong></p>Belloc Hilaire - The Path to Romeurn:md5:d0adac9ec4177c878a29c414cc2935d62013-01-25T13:33:00+00:002013-01-25T13:33:00+00:00balderBelloc HilaireChristianityVatican <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Belloc_Hilaire_-_The_Path_to_Rome_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Path to Rome</strong><br />
Year : 1902<br />
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To every honest reader that may purchase, hire, or receive this book, and to the reviewers also (to whom it is of triple profit), greeting - and whatever else can be had for nothing. If you should ask how this book came to be written, it was in this way. One day as I was wandering over the world I came upon the valley where I was born, and stopping there a moment to speak with them all - when I had argued politics with the grocer, and played the great lord with the notary-public, and had all but made the carpenter a Christian by force of rhetoric - what should I note (after so many years) but the old tumble-down and gaping church, that I love more than mother-church herself, all scraped, white, rebuilt, noble and new, as though it had been finished yesterday. Knowing very well that such a change had not come from the skinflint populace, but was the work of some just artist who knew how grand an ornament was this shrine (built there before our people stormed Jerusalem), I entered, and there saw that all within was as new, accurate, and excellent as the outer part ; and this pleased me as much as though a fortune had been left to us all ; for one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut. <strong>...</strong></p>Belloc Hilaire - The mercy of Allahurn:md5:e9631bc571459e2c24dc5ab2577609ef2013-01-25T13:27:00+00:002013-01-25T13:29:13+00:00balderBelloc HilaireArabIslam <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Belloc_Hilaire_-_The_mercy_of_Allah_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The mercy of Allah</strong><br />
Year : 1922<br />
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IN the days of Abd-er-Rahman, who was among the wisest, and most glorious of the Commanders of the Faithful, there resided in the City of Bagdad an elderly merchant of such enormous wealth that his lightest expressions of opinion caused the markets of the Euphrates to fluctuate in the most alarming manner. This merchant, whose name was Mahmoud, had a brother in the middle ranks of Society, a surgeon by profession, and by name El-Hakim. To this brother he had frequently expressed a fixed determination to leave him no wealth of any kind. "It is my opinion," he would say, "that a man's first duty is to his own children, and though I have no children myself, I must observe the general rule." He was fond of dilating upon this subject whenever he came across his relative, and would discover from time to time new and still better reasons for the resolution he had arrived at. <strong>...</strong></p>Belloc Hilaire - The servile stateurn:md5:7668e8811f1b5ddb54b37743d553fad92013-01-25T13:22:00+00:002013-01-25T13:23:11+00:00balderBelloc HilaireEconomyEurope <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Belloc_Hilaire_-_Socialism_and_the_servile_state_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The servile state</strong><br />
Year : 1912<br />
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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. WITH THE ISSUE OF A SECOND EDITION of this book the author may perhaps be excused for adding, by way of Preface, a few words upon the thesis it maintains and the method through which that thesis is treated. It appears the more necessary to do so because a careful comparison of the reviews and other expressions of opinion which it has received convinces the author that parts of his argument are liable to misconception. Itwould be a pity to correct such misconception by any changes in a completed book ; a few words set down here by way of Preface should be sufficient for the purpose. First: I would point out that the argument contained in the book bears no relation to the common accusation levelled against Socialists (that is, Collectivists) that life in a Socialist State would be so subject to regulation and order as to be unduly oppressive. With this common objection to the reform advocated by Socialists I have nothing to do in this book, nor can it touch my subject at any point. This book does not discuss the Socialist State. Indeed it is the very heart of my thesis that we are not, as a fact, approaching Socialism at all, but a very different state of society; to wit.a society in which the Capitalist class shall be even more powerful and far more secure than it is at present: a society in which the proletarian mass shall not suffer from particular regulations, oppressive or beneficent, but shall change their status,lose their present legal freedom, and besubject to compulsory labour. Next, I would beg my readers to believe that I have not attempted to set up this thesis as a warning or as a piece of gloom. I say nowhere in the book that the re-establishment of slavery would be a bad thing as compared with our present insecurity, and no one has a right to read such an opinion into this book. Upon the contrary, I say clearly enough that I think the tendency towards the re-establishment of slavery is due to the very fact that the new conditions may be found more tolerable than those obtaining under Capitalism. Which state of society might reasonably be preferred - the re-establishment of slavery or the maintenance of Capitalism - would make an ample subject for another book: but that alternative does not concern this volume or the thesis therein maintained. <strong>...</strong></p>Belloc Hilaire - Europe and the faithurn:md5:a3a0dfb16219f256b8328b1d99ebafe12013-01-25T13:13:00+00:002013-01-25T13:15:03+00:00balderBelloc HilaireChristianityEurope <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Belloc_Hilaire_-_Europe_and_the_faith_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Europe and the faith "Sine autoritate nulla vita"</strong><br />
Year : 1920<br />
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The Catholic Conscience of History. I SAY the Catholic "conscience" of history - I say "conscience" - that is, an intimate knowledge through identity : the intuition of a thing which is one with the knower - I do not say "The Catholic Aspect of History." This talk of "aspects" is modern and therefore part of a decline : it is false, and therefore ephemeral : I will not stoop to it. I will rather do homage to truth and say that there is no such thing as a Catholic "aspect" of European history. There is a Protestant aspect, a Jewish aspect, a Mohammedan aspect, a Japanese aspect, and so forth. For all of these look on Europe from without. The Catholic sees Europe from within. There is no more a Catholic "aspect" of European history than there is a man's "aspect" of himself. Sophistry does indeed pretend that there is even a man's "aspect" of himself. In nothing does false philosophy prove itself more false. For a man's way of perceiving himself (when he does so honestly and after a cleansing examination of his mind) is in line with his Creator's, and therefore with reality : he sees from within. Let me pursue this metaphor. Man has in him conscience, which is the voice of God. Not only does he know by this that the outer world is real, but also that his own personality is real. <strong>...</strong></p>Belloc Hilaire - Danton a studyurn:md5:e47ae691012a99d91a4b385c919cc0a72013-01-25T12:56:00+00:002013-01-25T13:08:41+00:00balderBelloc HilaireFranceRevolution <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Belloc_Hilaire_-_Danton_a_study_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Danton a study</strong><br />
Year : 1911<br />
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An historian of just pre-eminence in his university and college, in a little work which should be more widely known, has summed up the two principal characters of the Revolution in the following phrases : " the cold and ferocious Robespierre, the blatant Danton." The judgment is precipitate and is tinged with a certain bias. An authority of still greater position prefaces his notebook on the Revolution by telling us that he is going to describe the beast. The learned sectarian does not conceal from his readers the fact that a profound analysis had led to a very pronounced conviction. So certain is he of his ground, that he treats with equal consideration the evidence of printed documents, of autograph letters, and of a chance stranger speaking in a country inn of a thing that had happened forty years before. The greatest of French novelists and a principal poet has given us in " Quatre-vingt-treize " a picture moving and living. Yet even in that work much is admitted, for the sake of contrast and colour, which no contemporary saw. The dialogue between Danton and Marat, with its picturesque imtruths, is an example. <strong>...</strong></p>