Daily Archives: January 28, 2012

“Rambling on the Path to Rome” by Peter Francis Browne

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Houyhnhnm

For decades I’ve been an admirer of Hilaire Belloc’s The Path To Rome, so in a charity shop in Lancaster I grabbed at Peter Francis Browne’s account of his late-20th-century retracing of the same journey. Belloc’s walk had been a … Continue reading →

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“The New Jerusalem” by Emanuel Swedenborg

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Houyhnhnm

Starts as a promising attempt to work out a spiritual life from first principles. Swedenborg’s (admittedly naive) mutually-derived binary oppositions (so Good and Truth give respectively Will and Intellect, which, again respectively, give Charity and Faith; so, Good leads to … Continue reading →

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