Session One: Hillaire Belloc (1870 - 1953). (A) Life. Times. Accomplishments. Friends and Foes. (B) Writings.

(A) Hilaire Belloc was the greatest, often the fairest debater for truth and the common good of all citizens that England ever produced. He wrote clearly. He wasted few words. He roamed across politics, religion, economics, literature and above all history. With his great friend G. K. Chesterton he formed what Bernard Shaw styled "the Chesterbelloc," a powerful combination promoting the doctrine of "distributism," championing ample personal property for all citizens of a just commonwealth. He was also a barbed humorist.

(B) Range of writings especially THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS (1897), MORE BEASTS FOR WORSE CHILDREN (1898) and A MORAL ALPHABET (1899).

Session Two: ANTI-SEMITISM IN ENGLAND.
    "THE JEWS," published 1922. New Edition (post Hitler) 1937.
    "THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL" (Novel with Drawings by G.K. Chesterton). 1932.


Session Three:  ISLAM -- THE CHRISTIAN HERESY THAT WILL NOT DIE

    "THE MERCY OF ALLAH." 1922
    "THE CRUSADES." 1937,
    "THE GREAT HERESIES." 1938.

Session Four:  ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL JUSTICE FOR ENGLAND. DISTRIBUTISM.

Session Five: HOW TO THINK AND WRITE ABOUT HISTORY.

Session Six: (A) Belloc the Debater. (B) The Perennial Need for Rational Debate in the public interest. How might Belloc debate Pro-Life and Pro-Choice?

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Course under construction. 10/28/2004

Begun March 20, 2004

Patrick Killough
Black Mountain, NC