J F T Prince
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 953453 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J F T Prince |
| PRENOMES | J F T |
| SOBRENOME | Prince |
| ASSINATURA | PRINCE J F T |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1932 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1956 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Soviet Russia
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The Social Teaching of Savonarola
Savonarola has been called the first Christian social reformer of modern times. It is as such only that I speak of him.Social Christianity was for him the work which awaits both the body and the member, a vocation for all rather than the specialised task of a few not so much a struggle or a decisive battle, but a never-ending journey in which the traveller now slackens, now increases his pace, often retraces his footsteps, is ever watchful to the…
The Conscience of Capital
A Writer was recently rebuked in the Catholic Press for asking the question: What would have happened if every pulpit in the land had thundered against the factory conditions of the early industrial revolution; supposing the Church had said, 'We care not one jot or title for your iron laws of Economics, we care nothing about the alleged financial ruin of the country; these are not our concern'? And the same writer withal is again reproved for his…
Human Nature
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Poverty and the Marxist School
Marxist revolution, Bebel tells us, differs from all its predecessors in this, that it does not seek for new forms of religion, but denies religion altogether. 'The first word of religion,' wrote Friedrich Engels, 'is a lie'. 'The idea of God', said Marx, 'must be destroyed; it is the keystone of perverted civilisation'. 'It is useless', adds Bax, 'blinking the fact that the Christian doctrine is more revolting to the higher moral sense of today …
The Mystery of Human Motive
The value of the theories of Freud, in dealing with juvenile delinquency (publicly debated recently) brings up the whole question of their assessment of the problem of abnormal moral behaviour. For Freud the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is something more than an allegory. It is also a code in which Mr Hyde figures with immense preponderance. 'It is', says Jung, 'a detailed elaboration of man's shadow-side such as had never been carried out befo…
Democracy
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The Fact of the Family
The title I have chosen 'for this brief essay is both comfortable and soporific. Come what may-like the earth on which we stand- by very reason of our existence, the family will always be with us. But (here's the rub) what do you mean by family? The greatest clanger to it is perhaps our complacent disregard of its history. The popular conception of the family as an unchanging political entity is a snare as well as a delusion, for it blinds us to …
The Solidarity of Salvation
Catholicism, like Jewry, is persecuted because of its solidarity. But we are not forgetful for want of reminders that there is a Catholicism accurately distinguished by inverted commas: a heresy as subtle as that of the Pharisees: a 'faith' impotent to find expression in action. It is the faith of multitudes, but more especially of the elect. I would explain: it is the faith that has been called super-Catholicism.Super. For it is courageous in co…
The Heresy of the New Man
The writing of History is commonly advertised as a twofold labour: it is necessary not only to ascertain the facts but to interpret their meaning. The vocation of Karl Marx was scarcely less arduous; for, having established the principle of social evolution, there remained the labour of investing it with a positive content. This precisely was done by postulating an economic interpretation of History.Sociologists and biologists to whom the whole o…
Universal Diagnosis
Like everybody else who is inane enough to write letters to the paper and put an address at the bottom I get a certain number of circulars sent to me-sometimes even that most exciting of all things, an anonymous letter.I have therefore been assured in the past six months that the troubles of the nation in general and my troubles in particular are entirely due to drink: and I have of course been assured that I shall get cancer if I continue to smo…
Are You a Christian
Some three years ago, in articles and editorial obiter dicta Blackfriars commented upon the menace of Anti-Communism. It was something of a dissentient note; to Catholics who read, as well as buy, our Catholic weeklies, at least a little unfamiliar. To some indeed the slogan "Anti-Communism is not enough" was positively scandalous. Was there ever a surer title to Election than to be the first to detect heresy in the Left, or the loudest to clamou…
Nowhere Island
It is only of late years that Communism has come to excite an emotion rather than an opinion. . . . Until a decade or two ago, it distinguished itself from Socialism in that it dealt with distribution or consumption whereas Socialism concerned the mode of production: and whereas Socialism was a theory of economics the appeal of Communism was to sentiment, one might even say to religion. Their common ground lay solely in a recognition of the equal…
Family History
Peter, a clergyman's son, the only child of a late marriage, was born in '92. To his father's superlatively unstable career and change from place to place, he attributed not only his own tendency to gyrovagrancy-but the passion for nature, for the elemental, for width of vision, for adventure in human contingency that for him was character and fate. For the parsonages in which his childhood was spent looked in rapid turn on the watery business of…
Reflections on The End of An Era
Dr Niebuhr has given us a book' not unlike M. Berdyaev's End of Out Time. Both works lead us to deplore the complacency of Conservatism (as we know it) and the hypocrisy of Mercantile Christianity. Both books drive us to an alternative; with M, Berdiaeff we must choose between the humanistic individualism of the Renascence and Christian individualism, while Dr Niebuhr in impressing upon us the pharisaical injustice of this closing era would induc…
Enlisting Revolution II
Let us be clear. The vehemence of Conservative reaction to-day is evoked not by this particular -ism or that; nor has it anything to do with objective examination of the remedial theories proposed. Its critical faculties are limited strictly to the apprehension of a radical programme only in so far as it is sufficiently practical, or not, to be feared.Capitalism reacts, then, to nothing more specific than effective Revolutionary impulse evoked by…
The Coming Conflict
A strange anomaly confronts us to-day. We turn from a State inordinately preoccupied with the affairs of the individual to the anarchical interests of Capital hardly conceding to the vast majority of individuals the right to live. Twin Apollyons straddle right across the way with the forces of the world arrayed severally behind them; they have enlisted, between them, every influence, cultural and to a great extent religious; whether or not it be …
Enlisting Revolution
In short, what we want is Catholic Revolution-a revolution transcending the revolt of petty anarchists but not ashamed of harnessing their energy and harmonizing their discordant outcry. Anyone acquainted with conditions in the U.S.S.R. will agree with me that with one fundamental obstruction removed no state could be easier and worthier of adoption. That is why we have spoken with some eagerness on the 'unsponsored Bolshevism' detached from admi…
The Anarchy of Ideas
The case against the moderns is clear enough. Less than three centuries has been sufficient to allow the inductive method an uninterrupted passage through the domain of the physical sciences. And face to face with problems no longer of inanimate nature but of conscious behaviour, the modern mind (for our present purpose essentially the product of inductive procedure) continues unchecked in the impetus of conquest. Infatuated by his discoveries, t…
Stalin
If (hypothesized Aristotle) if but the tool could do its own work, even as the automatons of Daedalus and the walking tripods of Hephaestus, then there would be no need of slaves and 'prentices. And if (thought Antiparos of the water mill) we go on inventing things like this we shall certainly liberate our poor slaving women and return to the Golden Age. And Marx (who mistook the plutarchy born of the Reformation for Christianity) caustically obs…
The Necessity of Revolution
He is an inept apologist who urges that if the poor suffer the pangs of hunger, the rich too suffer the pangs of indigestion, that surfeit is no less painful than want. It is a mischievous casuistry that reminds us that nervous prostration is as often an attendant of prolonged satisfaction as of perennial anxiety as to where the next meal is coming from. Happiness is indeed relative to our wants, which are limited by our environment and by indivi…
Bolshevik Theory of Jurisprudence
I remember once hearing a Bolshevik discuss the difficulties of a Soviet representative at an imaginary pan-European rapprochement. I asked him whether ne referred specifically to confusion and embarrassment in ethical issues, and he answered me with a frank outline of the hybrid, and indeed unreal, nature of an entente between traditional Western democracy and the Soviet. He talked, too, I recollect, of the obvious unfruitfulness of external arb…
In Search of Democracy
Mr. John Strachey's book The Menace of Fascism (already reviewed by Blackfriars) is interesting perhaps as an objective phenomenon rather than for any very startling contents. The author thinks quite clearly: he sees in Fascism the triumph of the Capitalists over the inept op position of Labour; he is justly apprehensive of Fascist State-Absolutism; he is logical enough in suspecting that perfervid nationalism (in that it means a hatred of intern…
Russia and Reality
I was staying a few days in a Missionary College, where two hundred boys, of all ages and types, are doing their schooling, so that when they go forth to teach all nations they shall not be found wanting. I had said the Community Mass, and was making my thanksgiving. Two little boys-my servers-were putting out the candles, they were solemn-eyed, radiant, and the red of their cheeks outshone the crimson of their soutanes. I was distracted: insiste…
Communism and the Catholic Apologist
We deplore the spread of communism as much as we disapprove of much of the inept propaganda which seeks to combat it. I do not refer to the patently discreditable propaganda associated with certain phases of Capitalism so much as to the ingenuous claptrap of respectable journals which, apart from the disrepute attaching to the quotation of doubtful statistics, sins solely by debility. I am not concerned with the advisability of the religious apol…
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Russia and Reality
I was staying a few days in a Missionary College, where two hundred boys, of all ages and types, are doing their schooling, so that when they go forth to teach all nations they shall not be found wanting. I had said the Community Mass, and was making my thanksgiving. Two little boys-my servers-were putting out the candles, they were solemn-eyed, radiant, and the red of their cheeks outshone the crimson of their soutanes. I was distracted: insiste…
Communism and the Catholic Apologist
We deplore the spread of communism as much as we disapprove of much of the inept propaganda which seeks to combat it. I do not refer to the patently discreditable propaganda associated with certain phases of Capitalism so much as to the ingenuous claptrap of respectable journals which, apart from the disrepute attaching to the quotation of doubtful statistics, sins solely by debility. I am not concerned with the advisability of the religious apol…
Lenin
Set up to commemorate the social principles of Leo XIII, there stands in Rome a statue of a modern worker. Its significance is, I take it, unequivocal. Quite definitely it is not what a number of people would like it to be-an expression in stone of those picturesque stories with which the affluent are wont to edify their children about the accommodating fortitude and longanimity of the Destitute. Nor is it merely a comfortable eulogy of labour, a…
The Anarchy of Ideas
The case against the moderns is clear enough. Less than three centuries has been sufficient to allow the inductive method an uninterrupted passage through the domain of the physical sciences. And face to face with problems no longer of inanimate nature but of conscious behaviour, the modern mind (for our present purpose essentially the product of inductive procedure) continues unchecked in the impetus of conquest. Infatuated by his discoveries, t…
Stalin
If (hypothesized Aristotle) if but the tool could do its own work, even as the automatons of Daedalus and the walking tripods of Hephaestus, then there would be no need of slaves and 'prentices. And if (thought Antiparos of the water mill) we go on inventing things like this we shall certainly liberate our poor slaving women and return to the Golden Age. And Marx (who mistook the plutarchy born of the Reformation for Christianity) caustically obs…
The Necessity of Revolution
He is an inept apologist who urges that if the poor suffer the pangs of hunger, the rich too suffer the pangs of indigestion, that surfeit is no less painful than want. It is a mischievous casuistry that reminds us that nervous prostration is as often an attendant of prolonged satisfaction as of perennial anxiety as to where the next meal is coming from. Happiness is indeed relative to our wants, which are limited by our environment and by indivi…
Bolshevik Theory of Jurisprudence
I remember once hearing a Bolshevik discuss the difficulties of a Soviet representative at an imaginary pan-European rapprochement. I asked him whether ne referred specifically to confusion and embarrassment in ethical issues, and he answered me with a frank outline of the hybrid, and indeed unreal, nature of an entente between traditional Western democracy and the Soviet. He talked, too, I recollect, of the obvious unfruitfulness of external arb…
In Search of Democracy
Mr. John Strachey's book The Menace of Fascism (already reviewed by Blackfriars) is interesting perhaps as an objective phenomenon rather than for any very startling contents. The author thinks quite clearly: he sees in Fascism the triumph of the Capitalists over the inept op position of Labour; he is justly apprehensive of Fascist State-Absolutism; he is logical enough in suspecting that perfervid nationalism (in that it means a hatred of intern…
Reflections on The End of An Era
Dr Niebuhr has given us a book' not unlike M. Berdyaev's End of Out Time. Both works lead us to deplore the complacency of Conservatism (as we know it) and the hypocrisy of Mercantile Christianity. Both books drive us to an alternative; with M, Berdiaeff we must choose between the humanistic individualism of the Renascence and Christian individualism, while Dr Niebuhr in impressing upon us the pharisaical injustice of this closing era would induc…
Enlisting Revolution II
Let us be clear. The vehemence of Conservative reaction to-day is evoked not by this particular -ism or that; nor has it anything to do with objective examination of the remedial theories proposed. Its critical faculties are limited strictly to the apprehension of a radical programme only in so far as it is sufficiently practical, or not, to be feared.Capitalism reacts, then, to nothing more specific than effective Revolutionary impulse evoked by…
The Coming Conflict
A strange anomaly confronts us to-day. We turn from a State inordinately preoccupied with the affairs of the individual to the anarchical interests of Capital hardly conceding to the vast majority of individuals the right to live. Twin Apollyons straddle right across the way with the forces of the world arrayed severally behind them; they have enlisted, between them, every influence, cultural and to a great extent religious; whether or not it be …
Enlisting Revolution
In short, what we want is Catholic Revolution-a revolution transcending the revolt of petty anarchists but not ashamed of harnessing their energy and harmonizing their discordant outcry. Anyone acquainted with conditions in the U.S.S.R. will agree with me that with one fundamental obstruction removed no state could be easier and worthier of adoption. That is why we have spoken with some eagerness on the 'unsponsored Bolshevism' detached from admi…
Are You a Christian
Some three years ago, in articles and editorial obiter dicta Blackfriars commented upon the menace of Anti-Communism. It was something of a dissentient note; to Catholics who read, as well as buy, our Catholic weeklies, at least a little unfamiliar. To some indeed the slogan "Anti-Communism is not enough" was positively scandalous. Was there ever a surer title to Election than to be the first to detect heresy in the Left, or the loudest to clamou…
Nowhere Island
It is only of late years that Communism has come to excite an emotion rather than an opinion. . . . Until a decade or two ago, it distinguished itself from Socialism in that it dealt with distribution or consumption whereas Socialism concerned the mode of production: and whereas Socialism was a theory of economics the appeal of Communism was to sentiment, one might even say to religion. Their common ground lay solely in a recognition of the equal…
Family History
Peter, a clergyman's son, the only child of a late marriage, was born in '92. To his father's superlatively unstable career and change from place to place, he attributed not only his own tendency to gyrovagrancy-but the passion for nature, for the elemental, for width of vision, for adventure in human contingency that for him was character and fate. For the parsonages in which his childhood was spent looked in rapid turn on the watery business of…
Universal Diagnosis
Like everybody else who is inane enough to write letters to the paper and put an address at the bottom I get a certain number of circulars sent to me-sometimes even that most exciting of all things, an anonymous letter.I have therefore been assured in the past six months that the troubles of the nation in general and my troubles in particular are entirely due to drink: and I have of course been assured that I shall get cancer if I continue to smo…
The Solidarity of Salvation
Catholicism, like Jewry, is persecuted because of its solidarity. But we are not forgetful for want of reminders that there is a Catholicism accurately distinguished by inverted commas: a heresy as subtle as that of the Pharisees: a 'faith' impotent to find expression in action. It is the faith of multitudes, but more especially of the elect. I would explain: it is the faith that has been called super-Catholicism.Super. For it is courageous in co…
The Heresy of the New Man
The writing of History is commonly advertised as a twofold labour: it is necessary not only to ascertain the facts but to interpret their meaning. The vocation of Karl Marx was scarcely less arduous; for, having established the principle of social evolution, there remained the labour of investing it with a positive content. This precisely was done by postulating an economic interpretation of History.Sociologists and biologists to whom the whole o…
The Fact of the Family
The title I have chosen 'for this brief essay is both comfortable and soporific. Come what may-like the earth on which we stand- by very reason of our existence, the family will always be with us. But (here's the rub) what do you mean by family? The greatest clanger to it is perhaps our complacent disregard of its history. The popular conception of the family as an unchanging political entity is a snare as well as a delusion, for it blinds us to …
Democracy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Human Nature
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Poverty and the Marxist School
Marxist revolution, Bebel tells us, differs from all its predecessors in this, that it does not seek for new forms of religion, but denies religion altogether. 'The first word of religion,' wrote Friedrich Engels, 'is a lie'. 'The idea of God', said Marx, 'must be destroyed; it is the keystone of perverted civilisation'. 'It is useless', adds Bax, 'blinking the fact that the Christian doctrine is more revolting to the higher moral sense of today …
The Mystery of Human Motive
The value of the theories of Freud, in dealing with juvenile delinquency (publicly debated recently) brings up the whole question of their assessment of the problem of abnormal moral behaviour. For Freud the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is something more than an allegory. It is also a code in which Mr Hyde figures with immense preponderance. 'It is', says Jung, 'a detailed elaboration of man's shadow-side such as had never been carried out befo…
The Conscience of Capital
A Writer was recently rebuked in the Catholic Press for asking the question: What would have happened if every pulpit in the land had thundered against the factory conditions of the early industrial revolution; supposing the Church had said, 'We care not one jot or title for your iron laws of Economics, we care nothing about the alleged financial ruin of the country; these are not our concern'? And the same writer withal is again reproved for his…
The Social Teaching of Savonarola
Savonarola has been called the first Christian social reformer of modern times. It is as such only that I speak of him.Social Christianity was for him the work which awaits both the body and the member, a vocation for all rather than the specialised task of a few not so much a struggle or a decisive battle, but a never-ending journey in which the traveller now slackens, now increases his pace, often retraces his footsteps, is ever watchful to the…
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