Balder Ex-Libris - Pitt-Rivers GeorgeReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearPitt-Rivers George - The Czech conspiracyurn:md5:878a637563303f74f2a94e65fde0f6392014-01-07T00:16:00+00:002014-01-07T00:16:00+00:00balderPitt-Rivers GeorgeConspiracyDubitandoEuropeJewRévisionnismeSecond World War <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pitt-Rivers_George_Henry_Lane-Fox_-_The_Czech_conspiracy_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pitt-Rivers George Henry Lane-Fox</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Czech conspiracy A phase in the world-war Plot</strong><br />
Year : 1938<br />
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"The surest way to prevent seditions is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come, that shall set it on fire." (Francis Bacon) Prologue: Why and how this book was written This book is about the latest phase of the World-War Plot and its Consequences, for Europe and for us. It was first published as a pamphlet under the title Czecho-Slovakia during the recent crisis, and was written immediately after my return from a tour in Central Europe. As the result of requests from some Members of Parliament and some friends who wished to have in handy form, before the national crisis was debated in Parliament, some inside information as well as access to sources and documents not easily procurable or available, the pamphlet was compiled under circumstances of great difficulty within the space of a very few days. The second, and much enlarged, edition now called for meets a wider need. It provides, on the one hand, a historical record in which the seeds of the present world situation are traced back to the balance of European powers at the time of the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, and on the other reveals some of those hidden undercurrents that run beneath the diplomatic and political records of the present and past which still threaten us with catastrophe and disaster, unless we are in a position to recognise and understand their meaning. Since the end of the World War I have devoted myself to the related studies of anthropology, agriculture, the science of population and of international affairs. In their pursuit I have made frequent visits, sometimes on university lecture tours, to Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia, as well as to other countries. In 1936 I visited Spain after the outbreak of the Civil War. The same year found me studying the minority problems in Czecho-Slovakia. Events in these two countries have been closely connected and are linked with events in France and England. It was Lenin who once said: "Poignardez d'abord l'Espagne et puis la France." It was the Comintern and the "Internationals" which planned to Bolshevise Spain, not without the complicity of some English politicians. When plans miscarried, owing to General Franco's victory, Czecho-Slovakia, which had for long been used in the game, was chosen as the readiest means to bring about a world war. I make no profession of having "purely academic interests." Invariably such pretensions conceal ulterior motives or fail to conceal the cautious pedantry and the dullness of those who have no living interests at all. Of course I am strongly, even passionately, biased - but only in favour of the truth. And I am careless - whether the truth be welcome or not. <strong>...</strong></p>Pitt-Rivers George - The World Significance of the Russian Revolutionurn:md5:b048f507fb2d466f408916915b0835b32013-04-08T19:18:00+01:002013-04-08T18:19:44+01:00balderPitt-Rivers GeorgeRevolutionRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pitt-Rivers_George_-_The_World_Significance_of_the_Russian_Revolution_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pitt-Rivers George Henry Lane-Fox</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The World Significance of the Russian Revolution</strong><br />
Year : 1920<br />
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PREFATORY LETTER. By Dr. OSCAR LEVY. DEAR MR. PITT-RIVERS, When you fust handed me your MS. on The World Significance of the Russian Revolution, you expressed a doubt about the propriety of its title. After a perusal of your work, I can assure you, with the best of consciences, that your misgivings were entirely without foundation. <strong>...</strong></p>Pitt-Rivers George - Conscience & fanaticismurn:md5:dd20f1c4704de7155cee06f36e1e340c2013-04-08T19:06:00+01:002013-04-08T18:14:10+01:00balderPitt-Rivers GeorgeUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pitt-Rivers_George_-_Conscience_and_fanaticism_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pitt-Rivers George Henry Lane-Fox</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Conscience & fanaticism An essay on moral values</strong><br />
Year : 1919<br />
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In presenting this little volume to the public I am fully conscious of my presumption in introducing my personal views in a region where many hundreds of better qualified writers have devoted their best efforts. Since, however, no apology can justify a profitless task, if such it be, or add to its utility, if indeed it possesses any, I will not attempt to make one. If I have contributed in ever so slight a degree towards an understanding of the mental state or attitude we cali fanaticism, for the purpose of guarding against the catastrophes it begets, I shall have achieved my purpose. It is unfortunately inevitable that a discussion which involves current opinions and beliefs must necessarily encounter strong prejudices and opposition, but it is less on this account that this little work is likely to fail than for the reason to which Hume attributed the failure which attended the publication of his "Treatise of Human Nature," which he described as his guilt " of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early." A circumstance which prevented that " unfortunate literary attempt from reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." Needless to say, lhave relied for my interpretation of human notions and ideas, and the conduct which results from them, very largely upon the works of past and contemporary writers ; and my indebtedness to those with whom I differ no less than those with whom I agree is but very inadequately acknowledged in my references to the works of sorne of them. The earlier portions of the essay are devoted chiefiy to an examination of moral ideas, the latter portions more exclusively to the facts of nature and of mind from which they derive their meaning. Throughout I have attempted to keep the argument as free as possible from the thin air of philosophical and scholastic dialectic, and as far as possible in terms of common usage and thought. With this end in view, and for the sake of brevity, the authors to whose works I have referred most frequently have been selected either because they are better known or because their opinions are more widely held than in the case of others. But in any case no claim to exhaustive or even adequate treatment can be made for so slight a review of so vast a subject. <strong>...</strong></p>