Book Review: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis
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Book Review: France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu by Victor-Lucien Tapié
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great / The pen is mightier than the sword.”
– Richelieu; Or, the Conspiracy II. 2.
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões Translated by Landeg White
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
Book Review: Inquisition by Edward Peters
“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
– Joseph De Maistre
Book Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard L. Purtill
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Book Review: A Treatise on Perfection by Cardinal Richelieu
“For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”
– Matthew 11:30
Book Review: The Life of J.-K. Huysmans by Robert Baldick
“Lord, you gave him great talent, and he used it for your glory. You gave him great suffering, and he accepted it for your blessing…”
– Abbé Fontaine
Book Review: New Lies for Old by Anatoliy Golitsyn
“Our major secret weapon is to deprive you of an enemy.”
– Georgi Arbatov
Book Review: Religion and the Rise of Western Culture by Christopher Dawson
“The importance of these centuries…is not to be found in the external order they attempted to create, but in the internal change they brought about in the soul of Western man—a change which can never be entirely undone expect by the total negation or destruction of Western man himself.”
– Christopher Dawson