H C E Zacharias
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H C E Zacharias |
| GIVEN NAMES | H C E |
| FAMILY NAME | Zacharias |
| SIGNATURE | ZACHARIAS H C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1922 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Temptation Bulldozer
Some time ago, when in San Francisco, I visited the Flood Mansion-a perfect replica of a magnificent Italian palazzo, correct down to the least detail, set on a commanding height of the city, with a glorious view across the laguna to the mainland. The interior more than kept the promise of the exterior-from the grandiose entrance hall and its sweep of a balustraded staircase well to the lovely furniture and interior decoration of the numberless r…
Infallibility: Stalinist and Papal
I have often wondered how Communists can make their faith acceptable to their reason. Granted that in most cases the emotional forces released by their mystique leave little room for reasoning, yet man is a rational being and ultimately everybody is driven to rationalise, in however haphazard a manner, and thus to justify to himself the faith that is in him.Most difficult of all to rationalise must surely be the ultimate foundation on which the w…
Frustration: Its Cause and Cure
Has there ever been such a general sense of frustration as the world is suffering from today? I think not. In Pagan times this state of mind was certainly unknowm. People had bad luck, no doubt quite often, and keenly regretted it: but they never felt frustrated, for there was no basic, fundamental expectation which had got the bottom knocked out of it. Pagans knew that the gods were jealous and that a run of good luck and success was sure to bre…
Protohistory. An Explicative Account of the Development of Human Thought from Palaeolithic Times to the Persian Monarchy
China's Population Problems
The 'numbering' of people used to be resented in ancient times as presumptuous, unlucky and only meant as a means of further fiscal extortion. The taking of a census for purely scientific, demographic purposes is something quite modern and goes back to the 'counting of heads', required by democracy, practised for the first time in 1790 by the United States; Great Britain following suit with a first census in 1801. Subsequently most other countrie…
The Road to Indian Autonomy
The first requisite for a clear grasp of the tragic situation in India today is the need of distinguishing between two trends, the political one of conflict between autocracy and democracy, and the nationalistic one of conflict between White and Brown. Failure to distinguish can lead to such astonishing ideas as that Gandhi fights for Democracy or that “British” is synonymous with “imperialist.”
Internment
Adjustment to the novel life one is condemned to lead behind barbed wire begins the moment one has been assigned one's quarters. This adjustment is at first purely physical; but long before one has mastered the routine of living in such a place, there are naturally attempts at adjusting oneself to it also mentally. The obvious and most general first adjustment comes by way of resentment, disguised in most cases by a forced jocularity, which tries…
Some Interpretations of History
Circuitus illi jam explosi sunt', exclaimed St. Augustine, referring to 'the crushing monotony of endless cycles, period succeeding period and recommencing period, without anything ever advancing,' that theory of everlasting rebirth, and re-death, which the Indians call samsâra, and of which St. Augustine elsewhere says, 'qua opinione quid horribilius cogitari possit, nescio.' With the coming of Christ 'that infernal cycle explodes. Something new…
World Conference, World Domination or World Government
World Conference, World Domination or World Government?” is the title I have chosen for the consideration of a problem which I venture to think is the most burning question of our age: but which, as a student of history, I shall approach historically. What do we mean by “World” in this context? Evidently Humanity, the totality of human beings who at any one time inhabit our planet. This humanity is one, both biologically and historically. It has …
Politics and Eternity
If life must come to an end," says Fritz Strich, "it is not in itself necessary; it is not bound to live. Out of the depths of this dolorous recognition and experience there arises that which alone makes the spirit to be spirit, and man, man: the will to something that is necessary in itself, that necessarily must perdure and never can terminate.""The will to something necessary": echoes of the Schopenhauerian world as will and imagination? An em…
The Layman and Society: Reflections on three Congresses
It is exactly thirty years ago that the first of the now famous Semaines Sociales de France was held in Lyons. Since then sessions-annual, except during the War-have been held of this perambulating Catholic University in all the regions of France: the twenty-sixth session was held this year in Nice (July 23 to 29). In 1932, at Lille, the theme treated was economic; last year, at Rheims, political; this year the official title of the subject was S…
India's Connection With Britain
Rise and Fulfilment of British Rule in India? It makes one think of Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, of B. D. Basu's Rise and Consolidation of the Christian Power in India, of the Cambridge History of British India, and The Indian Empire. The title is entrancing-and not a little enigmatic: for the authors never tell the reader in so many words what exactly they mean by 'fulfilment.' Whatever it be, this History of the British Raj is…
The Syrian Christians of Malabar and Reunion
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The Syrian Christians of Malabar and Reunion
The Layman and Society: Reflections on three Congresses
It is exactly thirty years ago that the first of the now famous Semaines Sociales de France was held in Lyons. Since then sessions-annual, except during the War-have been held of this perambulating Catholic University in all the regions of France: the twenty-sixth session was held this year in Nice (July 23 to 29). In 1932, at Lille, the theme treated was economic; last year, at Rheims, political; this year the official title of the subject was S…
India's Connection With Britain
Rise and Fulfilment of British Rule in India? It makes one think of Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, of B. D. Basu's Rise and Consolidation of the Christian Power in India, of the Cambridge History of British India, and The Indian Empire. The title is entrancing-and not a little enigmatic: for the authors never tell the reader in so many words what exactly they mean by 'fulfilment.' Whatever it be, this History of the British Raj is…
Politics and Eternity
If life must come to an end," says Fritz Strich, "it is not in itself necessary; it is not bound to live. Out of the depths of this dolorous recognition and experience there arises that which alone makes the spirit to be spirit, and man, man: the will to something that is necessary in itself, that necessarily must perdure and never can terminate.""The will to something necessary": echoes of the Schopenhauerian world as will and imagination? An em…
World Conference, World Domination or World Government
World Conference, World Domination or World Government?” is the title I have chosen for the consideration of a problem which I venture to think is the most burning question of our age: but which, as a student of history, I shall approach historically. What do we mean by “World” in this context? Evidently Humanity, the totality of human beings who at any one time inhabit our planet. This humanity is one, both biologically and historically. It has …
Some Interpretations of History
Circuitus illi jam explosi sunt', exclaimed St. Augustine, referring to 'the crushing monotony of endless cycles, period succeeding period and recommencing period, without anything ever advancing,' that theory of everlasting rebirth, and re-death, which the Indians call samsâra, and of which St. Augustine elsewhere says, 'qua opinione quid horribilius cogitari possit, nescio.' With the coming of Christ 'that infernal cycle explodes. Something new…
The Road to Indian Autonomy
The first requisite for a clear grasp of the tragic situation in India today is the need of distinguishing between two trends, the political one of conflict between autocracy and democracy, and the nationalistic one of conflict between White and Brown. Failure to distinguish can lead to such astonishing ideas as that Gandhi fights for Democracy or that “British” is synonymous with “imperialist.”
Internment
Adjustment to the novel life one is condemned to lead behind barbed wire begins the moment one has been assigned one's quarters. This adjustment is at first purely physical; but long before one has mastered the routine of living in such a place, there are naturally attempts at adjusting oneself to it also mentally. The obvious and most general first adjustment comes by way of resentment, disguised in most cases by a forced jocularity, which tries…
Protohistory. An Explicative Account of the Development of Human Thought from Palaeolithic Times to the Persian Monarchy
China's Population Problems
The 'numbering' of people used to be resented in ancient times as presumptuous, unlucky and only meant as a means of further fiscal extortion. The taking of a census for purely scientific, demographic purposes is something quite modern and goes back to the 'counting of heads', required by democracy, practised for the first time in 1790 by the United States; Great Britain following suit with a first census in 1801. Subsequently most other countrie…
Frustration: Its Cause and Cure
Has there ever been such a general sense of frustration as the world is suffering from today? I think not. In Pagan times this state of mind was certainly unknowm. People had bad luck, no doubt quite often, and keenly regretted it: but they never felt frustrated, for there was no basic, fundamental expectation which had got the bottom knocked out of it. Pagans knew that the gods were jealous and that a run of good luck and success was sure to bre…
Infallibility: Stalinist and Papal
I have often wondered how Communists can make their faith acceptable to their reason. Granted that in most cases the emotional forces released by their mystique leave little room for reasoning, yet man is a rational being and ultimately everybody is driven to rationalise, in however haphazard a manner, and thus to justify to himself the faith that is in him.Most difficult of all to rationalise must surely be the ultimate foundation on which the w…
Temptation Bulldozer
Some time ago, when in San Francisco, I visited the Flood Mansion-a perfect replica of a magnificent Italian palazzo, correct down to the least detail, set on a commanding height of the city, with a glorious view across the laguna to the mainland. The interior more than kept the promise of the exterior-from the grandiose entrance hall and its sweep of a balustraded staircase well to the lovely furniture and interior decoration of the numberless r…
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