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The American Republic, by Orestes Brownson, was first published in 1865, when the nation had just emerged from a civil war that had come harrowingly close to shattering its very existence. In the period immediately before and during the war - as in just about every other period of his life -...

Preface allying the Really Human Things" is a phrase of G. K. M^Jr Chesterton's. And not by accident, I called the column in m^^^ which previous versions of about half the chapters gath-I ^^^ ered here first appeared "Really Human Things." From the beginning I thought that I might compose...

Introduction For all the variety of their titles, the chapters of this book convey a concern common to all of them. It is the concern about the importance of knowing the limits of the scientific method, a concern which no less a physicist than James Clerk Maxwell specified as a most difficult...