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Gabriel Marcel, “The Concept of Spiritual Heritage,” 1953

gabriel-marcel-1-sizedNot well known in the U.S., Marcel was one of the foremost Christian Humanists of 20th-century Europe.  This article, in particular, influenced Russell Kirk.  So much so that Kirk hoped to co-author a book with Marcel.

Source: Gabriel Marcel, “The Concept of Spiritual Heritage,” CONFLUENCE 2 (September 1953): 3-15.

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An Open Letter to Etienne Gilson, 1950

Source: Waldemar Gurian, “Europe and the United Sates: An Open Letter to Etienne Gilson,” COMMONWEAL 53 (December 15, 1950), 250-251.

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Seven Original Articles on the New Humanism

Image of Irving Babbitt by Michael Hogue, borrowed from THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.

Image of Irving Babbitt by Michael Hogue, borrowed from THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.

Seven articles in pdf format.  Enjoy!

Source: T.S. Eliot, ESSAYS ANCIENT AND MODERN (Faber and Faber, 1936).

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Source: Austin Warren, “The ‘New Humanism’ Twenty Years After,” MODERN AGE 3 (Winter 1958-1959): 81-86.

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Source: G.R. Elliott, “Irving Babbitt as I Knew Him,” AMERICAN REVIEW 8 (1936-1937): 36-60.

irving babbitt as I knew him

Source: W.F. Giese, “Irving Babbitt, Undergraduate,” THE AMERICAN REVIEW 6 (1935-1936): 65-94.

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Source: G.R. Elliott, “The Religious Dissension of Babbitt and More,” AMERICAN REVIEW 9 (1937): 252-265.

babbitt and more religious dissension

Source: C. Hartley Grattan, ed, THE CRITIQUE OF HUMANISM: A SYMPOSIUM (New York: Brewer and Warren, 1930), 39-60.

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Source: G.R. Elliott, “More’s Christology,” AMERICAN REVIEW 9 (1937): 35-46.

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“Disraeli and Conservatism” by Paul Elmer More, 1915

Many regard this as Paul Elmer More’s most important essay.  Certainly, it is the article that inspired the “moral imagination” of Irving Babbitt, T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk, and Winston Elliott.

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Source: Paul Elmer More, Aristocracy and Justice (Boston, 1915).

A “Revival of Humanism” by Paul Elmer More, 1930.

Originally published in March 1930, “A Revival of Humanism”–a fascinating critique of More’s best friend, Irving Babbitt, appeared in More, On Being Human (Princeton University Press, 1936), 1-24.

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The Philosophy Behind WW1 by Paul Elmer More, 1915

Another very intriguing article about the thought behind the warring power in the First World War.

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Source: Paul Elmer More, “The Philosophy of War,” THE UNPOPULAR REVIEW 3 (January-March 1915): 1-16.

Paul Elmer More, “The Lust for Empire,” 1914.

1807280-60728_050_ca6992ffMore’s rather intelligent screed against the philosophy behind World War I.  Enjoy.

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Source: Paul Elmer More, “The Lust for Empire,” THE NATION (October 22, 1914), 493-495.

Paul Elmer More on St. Augustine

A young Paul E. More.

A young Paul E. More.

A wonderfully insightful essay on St. Augustine by one of the greatest men of letters of the past century, Paul Elmer More.

The essay is a bit older than the book, but here’s the version from the 1909 collection of Shelburne Essays: Studies in Religious Dualism (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909), 65-100.

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