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Christopher Dawson

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Also known as Christopher Henry Dawson

British historian (1889–1970)

Person · Open Library

Born
1889
Died
1970
Works
93

Top works

  • Katholiken sprechen zur welt
  • The historic reality of Christian culture
  • Tradition and inheritance
  • The age of the gods
  • La Formazione della Unità Europea dal Sec. Vo al XIo

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
  • I learnt more during my school-days from my visits to the Cathedral at Winchester than I did from the hours of religious instruction in school. That great church with its tombs of the Saxon kings and the mediaeval statesmen-bishops gave one a greater sense of the magnitude of the religious element in our culture and the depths of its roots in our national life than anything one could learn from books.
  • The Bolshevik philosophy is simply the reductio ad absurdum of the principles implicit in bourgeois culture and consequently it provides no real answer to the weaknesses and deficiencies of the latter. It takes the nadir of the European spiritual development for the zenith of the new order.
  • In reality the existing tendency toward social uniformity is far from solving the problem of social organization; it merely provides the material, the unorganized mass, which has to be informed by living spirits and ordered to some higher end. Without this, social uniformity can mean no more than a reversion to barbarism, and democracy nothing more than the rule of the herd.

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date of death
1970-05-25
date of birth
1889-10-12
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