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On Settling

By Roger Scruton
(Continuum, 2006)

Collected essays from Scruton’s weekly articles in the Financial Times on country matters.

Always beautifully written, one of these pieces (Vegetables) won the 2002 prize from The Queen’s English Society for the best piece of prose writing of the year.

177 pages

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Category: Books by the Fellows

For many, the evil in the world overshadows the good, obscures it, and even causes its denial. But it is the fact of joy that is the real mystery of our being.

James V. Schall, S.J., On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs, xiv

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