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The Film in Education
Authors: Valentine Ferdinand 
Published: July 2007

Shorn of wearisome details the recent dispute between Sir James Marchant and the British Film Institute — which acts as liason between the teachers and the Cinema Trade— reveals the disquieting fact that a complete mechanical education is to be part of our conditioned life of tomorrow. The teacher already challenged by robot Radio is to be superseded by the Talkie Educator; and even a Peoples’ Cinema University.The Cinema Trade offers itself as an instrument in the cause of education; it would say:‘You teachers know little of film technique, and for our part we know little about teaching; let us collaborate: we will turn out the films you need.'Could anything be fairer than that? Make friends of the Mammon of Iniquity, of a giant organization involving some five hundred million pounds of capital, and chiefly controlled by an international ring of Jews!A remarkable article appeared in La Revue Catholique des Idees et des Fails, Feb. 1929, under the title Les Juifs et le Cinema in which we are told that the production and distribution of the film in England, America and most other countries is directed by Jews with the intention of undermining, the Christian Religion. This may or may not be true; but when we recall the Jewish origins of Louis Meyer, Samuel Goldwin, Szarwassy, C. F. Bernhard, Louis Bernstein, Eisenstein, Eward Stoll, J. W. Rosenthal, Ludwig Plattner, Lupu Pick, Harry Day Levy, Denman, Hyams, Woolfe. to name but a few, there seems little doubt that the power behind the film trade is largely Jewish.
A Hundred Years of Psychology
Authors: Elrincton Aidan 
Published: July 2007

In comparison with such sciences as Chemistry, Physics or Physiology, which have acquired a certain stability of doctrine and method, Psychology at the present day appears to have little of either of these characters; an excuse is often made to the effect that psychology is still one of the younger sciences, and has not as yet quite found a firm footing. The truth is that there are no clear-cut generally-accepted principles governing either the subject matter or methods of this science, as may be seen by consulting various text-books or that interesting volume of essays, Psychologies of 1930. Psychology may perhaps be considered young as an experimental science, but in regard to a part at least of its subject, it is about as old as any enquiry one can think of, for man has always been interested in man. Speculation on the existence and nature of ‘Soul,’ of mind, of thinking, of appetition, of character and conduct, reaches back to the centuries B.c., when Greek Philosophy was at its highest and best in the writings of Plato and Aristotle. These are subjects with which psychology to-day is still concerned, but having lost contact with the ancient philosohpy it has also lost a great deal of coherence.It is this perhaps that accounts for the vagueness in the usage of the word ‘psychology’ to-day. But this very vagueness has certain advantages which must not be under-estimated, since it provides an incentive to research, and to scientific, that is to say methodical, investigation of the problems presented by human nature.
Peace and Intellectual Co-Operation
Authors: Hely- Hutchinson F. R. 
Published: July 2007

The idea of extending the purview of the League of Nations to ‘international intellectual relations’ was first launched at the Peace Conference, where it found but little favour. The first official recognition of a movement which to some extent originated in the desperate situation of intellectual circles in the early days after the war was obtained in 1921, when the Second Assembly of the League decided to constitute an International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation—a decision which was reinforced in 1924 by the foundation, by the French Government, of an International Institute with headquarters in the Palais Royal. The lists of men and women of international repute which the League succeeded in winning for this cause include some of the greatest names of science and art: Einstein, Bergson, Madame Curie. Paul-Valery, Gilbert Murray, Galsworthy, Felix Weingartner and Bela Bartok. to mention only a few.The central idea of intellectual co-operation is to promote, in all spheres that come within its range, co-ordination of effort and collaboration capable, not merely of saving time and facilitating information, distribution and progress, but also of encouraging the creation, gradually perhaps—but none the less surely—of an international outlook.This programme falls naturally into two parts. The first, designed to facilitate study and research, may be described as the perfecting of an international machinery which consists largely in relations between ministries of education, ministries of fine arts, universities, students’ associations, institutes of art and history, museums, libraries and record offices.
The Cardinal'
Authors: de Zulueta A. 
Published: July 2007

To attempt the biography, however modest, of a public man, and an ecclesiastic at that, during his lifetime, or a( least during his tenure of office, is, for obvious reasons, no easy task. Mr. Dingle, who, we are told on the wrapper, is ‘a publicist of wide experience.’ has had the courage to attempt the task on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Cardinal of Westminster, and he has laid English-speaking Catholics under a debt of gratitude.One need not be suspected of flattery for saying that the general feeling of English Catholics towards their leader in these past thirty years is one of filial veneration and genuine affection. To the younger generation he is synonymous with the history of the Church in this country as they have known it, whilst in the longer memories of their fathers he is justly appraised as the successor of three great men, and in some respects as one Lo whom it has been given to surpass their work. Multi congregaverunt divitias . . . the treasures of Catholic England, so warily and carefully brought out from their hiding holes by Wiseman and Manning and Vaughan, have been freely opened to a more universal appeal and a greater place in the nation's life under the beneficent rule of the present Archbishop of Westminster.Providence gives to each age the pastors it needs—or deserves—and with the final close of what may be called the mentality of the Penal Times in England, and the beginning of an age of expansion and of Catholic Action, there has come to the See of Westminster and to the effective leadership of the Church one eminently fitted to that period of fuller development.
Leo XIII on Reunion
Authors: White Victor 
Published: July 2007

The publication of this collection of Papal pronouncements and correspondence relating to the union of Christendom could not have been better timed. The explosion of ‘Father Jerome’s’ squib has alone been sufficient to blow away whatever cobwebs may have been thought to have gathered round Satis Cognitum and Apostolicae Curae. The new Anglican endeavour towards understanding with Christians on the Continent through the pages of (Ecumenica makes the reappearance of Leo XIll’s utterances about the A.P.U.C. and Pius XI's Mortalium Animos singularly opportune.Quite apart from the authority which belongs to these documents, an authority which establishes them permanently as the basis of every Catholic endeavour to forward the union of Christendom, they possess an intrinsic quality which puts them in a place which is unique in the literature of reunion. It is nothing less than a burning passion for the cause of Christian unity which flames up in Pope Leo's Encyclical Praeclara Gratulationis and his moving letter to the English People Amantissima Voluntatis. Despite the formal language of pontifical docunicnts, which reads so stiffly in translation, it is difficult to find a parallel in the writings of Catholic or non-Catholic reunionists to the warmth of Pope Leo’s appeals.The reason is not far to seek. For Leo XIII the unity of Christendom was a matter not merely of expediency, however urgent, though nobody realized better than he did, as pages of Praeclara Gratulationis show, how urgent was the need for unity in the face of modern conditions.
That They All May Be One
Authors: St. John Henry 
Published: July 2007

The recent publication of ‘Fr. Jerome's’ A Catholic Plea for Reunion was unfortunate. It put forward, with great persuasiveness and candour, an unusual view of the Anglican problem, in a way calculated to rouse bristling hostility in those for whom Anglicanism is coloured by the prejudices of upbringing, and not likely to win acceptance even from those who have any real inside knowledge of the Church of England. Apart from its appearance without ecclesiastical sanction, ‘Fr. Jeroine's’ book showed considerable misapprehension of the religious situation in England, and in particular of the nature of the Church of England itself; it made at least one dangerous suggestion in regard to matters of Faith; moreover, its writer betrayed a disgruntled outlook, the result of some purely personal grievance, and this had the effect of discounting the value of much that he had to say.So A Catholic Plea for Reunion was seized upon by the reviewers and commentators, much of it was justly, though perhaps over-violently, torn to shreds, and an unusual and even fruitful approach to the problem of Anglicanism was swamped in a flood of indignant condemnation.The pages that follow are an attempt to restate ‘Fr. Jerome's’ main contention in a modified form and, it is hoped, without his misapprehensions of the situation. Ignorance of the nature of the Anglican problem can hardly be urged as an excuse for an explanation of the opinions of the present writer. He was born and brought up in the strictest of Anglican circles, and had passed through every phase of Anglo-Catholicism, from moderate High-Churchism to the most extreme pro-Romanism, before he saw by God's Grace that the religion he believed had only one divinely authorized Teacher on earth.
I Private Property In a Cultural Civilization
Authors: Robbins H. 
Published: July 2007

The importance of private property as one of the fundamental institutions of a Christian State is the central idea of all Catholic thought on social reconstruction, and the widest possible extension of property among the community is regarded as an essential requirement of social justice. It is, however, too readily assumed by many that a diffusion of private ownership of productive property, whether it be in the form of land or the possession of any craft or business, would of itself provide a solution to most of the problems that now afflict us. But a more detailed survey of the economy of modern civilized society will reveal the fact that few, if any, of its members can be entirely self-supporting, and that an interchange of goods and services is a daily requirement. However widespread individual ownership may become, this necessity for a constant series of exchanges on the part of the owners is the dominating feature of any civilized community. This aspect of the question of the reconstruction of our social order has not so far received the consideration that it deserves, but the importance of its bearing on social justice can be gauged by a brief examination of the peculiar nature of property in our economic system.Whenever Catholics speak of private property as being natural to man, and, having regard to his condition of susceptibility to the effects of original sin, as the arrangement most conducive to social harmony, and argue from this that ownership implies the right of the possessor to the unlimited return or profit accruing from its use, it is seldom remembered that property as possessed in the majority of cases to-day depends €or its value on the functioning of a highly complex and interdependent series of economic operations.
Personal Yet Universal Ethics
Authors: Gilby Thomas 
Published: July 2007

Apart from size, tortoises all look very much the same; mostly shell, and an unvarying, somewhat expressionless countenance — when it emerges. However, a recent correspondence in The Times has drawn attention to the range of individuality possessed by these creatures. Mr. and Mrs. Shelley are now famous characters, and the tortoise who nibbles the tennis shoes of visitors; then there is one who thrives on a diet of ground bones, another who has his shell brightened with furniture polish. Some are surly, but many recognize with pleasure their masters and mistresses. Once you know them, almost all betray different characteristics. Antony and Cleopatra in the garden at Blackfriars have quite distinct ways of their own, but watching them this morning it struck me that they have very much in common, after all; that were they just entirely different substances we should never distinguish them from the pansies they have savaged; that, in short, the idea of a tortoise covers them almost as completely as their shell does.Unconsciously and lazily, I was thinking my way across the ground of the disputes on the nature of universals which occupied the early middle ages; but I was led to reflect that the problem is still very much to the point. If Gerbert and Roscelin thought of it in terms of logical forms, and I was considering it in regard to the realness of tortoiseness, a present and urgent interest applies to the matter of human conduct.
‘Clean Films’
Authors: Leslie Arthur 
Published: July 2007

The film industry to-day is a huge commercial organization involving something like £500,000,000 of capital, of which about four-fifths is invested in the United States, and this industry stretches itr great bulk into every corner of the globe. It caters for all classes of people; it provides comfort, cheapness and continuity of performance, as well as recreation, distraction and relaxation after the daily monotony of business and working hours. It transplants the visitors into a new world of surroundings (very often, however, to the detriment of home life), and exerts an influence far beyond the auditorium. It saves time and money in buying and reading books, and, in some cases, supplies the mind with an increase of knowledge of other nation', races, countries, their customs and manners, and this without appealing to any intellectual exertion on the part of the visitor.If we pause for a moment to consider the work conditions in Hollywood, the most important hive of the industry. we gather from press reports and other eve-witness accounts that the atmosphere brought about by scandal and divorce is not at all conducive to persons fit for theresponsihilitv of producing world entertainment. Such an attitude towards life is bound to show itself in the work. The standards of morality, whether of the performers, producer, director or scenarist, express themselves most clearly in the films they make. If these people disregard the real issue between self-control and immoral self-gratification it seems to follow that they view life in one aspect only, and therefore are incapable of giving the world true art through this powerful medium.
Belloc on Social Credit
Authors: Drinkwater F. H. 
Published: July 2007

Many recognize in Mr. Hilaire Belloc not only gicat achievement of literary genius, with sincerity and courage, but also a realistic judgment of practical allairs which has over and over again been proved right by the logic of events. His considered verdict, on the claims of Social Credit is therefore an event of sonic importance. It is given in an article published over Mr. Belloc's name in G.K.’s Weekly for June 14th.Few men of Mr. Belloc's generation seem to be still capable of the mental application, the few houi-s of serious reading and critical thought, necessary to form an opinion of their own about monetary reform. Some distinguished contemporaries of his are still unable to take in (for instance) the ordinary quite undeniable facts of credit-creation; or again, they cannot hold steadily in their mind (even when the); have perceived and admitted it) the fact that abundance of production has now abolished all excuse for poverty.None of these failings can be imputed to Mr. Belloc. He realizes fully that we have entered upon a new’ epoch in the world's history; the long ages 01 scarcity, of man’s desperate struggle to gain a living, are over; for good or for evil, the age of plenty has come.Science and invention, he says, have ‘made a vast increase of production possible. We have conic to an era of potential ahundance . . . This is even true, in a large measure, of organic raw materials . . .
A Hundred Years of Psychology
Authors: Elrington Aidan 
Published: July 2007

The story of the recognition and treatment of those peculiarities of the personality known as neuroses, or psychoneuroses, is one in which a good deal of charlatanism has acconipanied much genuine investigation. Differing from actual insanity, these states of mind are so varied in their expression and causes, that it was a long time before any very clear conception of their nature and origin was reached. That they are now generally recognized as having to a great extent a psychological rather than a physical basis is due to the labours of the Viennese psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who by his special technique of psychoanalysis gave a different complexion to this branch of psychological medicine.The interest in this study begins with the rise of mesmerism and hypnotism. Soniewhere about the year 1760, Mesmer, a young Austrian student of medicine, happened to see some cures obtained by the use of magnetised plates, and being attracted by this new mode of treatment, discovered that the human hand could be just as effective a means of magnetising as a metal plate. The human body was then thought to possess a magnetic influence, which came to be known as animal magnetism. Mesmer eventually settled in Paris, where he became famous! whilst ‘mesmerism,’ as it was called, spread rapidly throughout Europe. This aroused at the same time much opposition, commissions being appointed to investigate the alleged cures, the upshot of which was the denial of magnetism of any kind as a cause of the cures, which, though admitted to be real, were thought to proceed, like the illness itself, from imagination.
'The Christian Virtues
Authors: Thistlethwaite B. 
Published: July 2007

In his recent booklet on The Catholic Conscience, Fr. Joseph Keating, S.J., states that ‘the chief obstacle to the conversion of the world to the Catholic Faith is not the opposition of its enemies, but the unworthiness of those who already possess it,’ and lie goes on to ask. ‘Why are Catholics not conspicuously better than those less bountifully endowed?’ May not the answer lie in part in a relative lack of emphasis on the practice of the simple Christian virtues, and a certain absence of precision in working out the practical application of these virtues to the circumstances of everyday life?The problem is of course, the attainment of a true balance; we need a perception of the relative importance of the different factors of the Christian life. A discussion of this sort is apt to seem ungracious in the midst of so much that is excellent, yet it may be argued that, just as the activities and outlook of the individual tend to become unbalanced and call for adjustment, so also does the Catholic. body in this country need from time to time to review its position and restore its equilibrium.External circumstances are constantly changing, and in this matter of the Christian virtues the attitude of the world differs greatly from what it was in the not distant past. As a sequel to the general lack of confidence in religious doctrine, it has become customary to doubt those things which have been commonly associated with religion; and aided by the ingenuity of the playwright, the novelist, the scientist and the philosopher, each of the Christian virtues has been examined with suspicion, and speciously undermined.
Catholic Action and Unemployables
Authors: O'Hea L. 
Published: July 2007

‘Make him a farmer,’ used to be the hopeful proposal for the difficult member of the family. It was really a compliment to the oldest of the civilized professions—that farming might do for him what other occupations could not. In general, however, it must be recognized that settling on the land requires qualities of character all too rare and that the agricultural labourer, dull though he may appear to those who do not know him, must possess a resourcefulness of varied skill and knowledge beyond comparison with wage-earners in other trades. The Catholic land movement in the different phases of its development must call for men and women of at least average human qualities. It is to be hoped, however, that in due time its enthusiasts will find themselves able to give some attention to the value of the land as giving training and livelihood for young people of the ‘problem’ type. So far as ‘Catholic Action and Unemployables’ are concerned, what follows is purely speculative—a suggestion to the Catholic body, drawn from work done on interdenominational lines by others.Turner’s Court Farm Training Colony is just off the London road, fifteen miles short of Oxford, in the Chiltern Hills. There are some three hundred colonists, divided among five homes, on a 1,000-acre farm; among them some Catholics, varying in number from twenty to forty. The Colony is governed by the Christian Service Union and provides for lads who are ‘unemployable.’
Two Friends
Authors: Shewring W. H. 
Published: July 2007

I met them five years ago, during the yearly visit south; saw them on several occasions at Bath and Bristol; stayed with them at the Bell in Malmesbury; and for three years spent Christmas at Whitehouse Terrace. With others who knew them, I see in their death an epoch ended.It was not merely that they had survived from the ‘nineties, not even that they had been at the centre of that society. Each of them in his way had shaped himself to the new age; they read, made friends, and generally lived, with zest, while they kept without display those gifts which they did not see renewed around them—certain courtesies, a certain social sense, certain refinements of understatement. Hence their charm, hence their elusion of many who would have courted them had they taken a conventionally veteran air. When in 1931 Canon Gray published his Poems, the clerical reviews observed that a well-known parish priest had written a book of verse; the secular referred briefly to the modernisms of Mr. Gray. Amateurs of the Yellow Book period were still seeking copies of Silverpoints.In private they did not discourse on the past, but there were allusions; most often to Beardsley and his sister, sometimes to Pater or Lionel Johnson. If one heard mass at St. Peter’s early in January, one’s prayers were asked for the soul of Paul Verlaine. A chance naming of Dowson permitted me a question on Cynara; it was well received. Yes, she was as Symons had described her; tris gentille; no one saw her much, not Dowson himself. So far one might go; but any plot to elicit a narrative would have been delicately countered.