Communications
COMMUNICATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROHIBITION Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:-The relation between the two subjects at the head of this letter is entirely factitious, quite as much so as the...
...Bertusi quotes...
...On this topic, Dom Butler does not give his own opinion, but summarizes the ideas of Charles Robinson (that is what I read in the French authorized edition, issued in Paris, 1924...
...However, it has no particular bearing on the question of prohibition by national enactment...
...Engels's review of the four poetry books in the Fall Book issue of The Commonweal was excellent...
...Igino Giordani...
...MONTE CASSINO City of the Vatican...
...Bertusi...
...Any further discussion is superfluous while Dom Gray limits himself to denial and does not give proofs against historians and tradition...
...It expresses adherence to the "principle of prohibition" and apparently would have prohibitory laws state-wide...
...page 327...
...The important point is that he cannot fairly be •cited as favoring either of these measures...
...However, for Dom Gray's information, I quote the following references...
...However, even in this case, Dom Gray did not read accurately...
...Rev...
...The Editors...
...The same thing is related by the venerable Bede, who was born only sixty years after Saint Augustine's death, and who combined at least the two sources-tradition and written records-which for Dom Gray are "sufficient grounds for rendering a historical judgment...
...it rests exclusively on evidence...
...Bertusi perhaps attributes more importance to my statement about the influence of the "prosperity reserve" upon business activity during a prosperous period than I myself had in mind...
...I wish to comment briefly on Mr...
...The Universe, London, October 18, 1929...
...Is it on account of this independence of judgment that soon after his declaration he refers to the "authority" of a "historian," Abbot Butler, in order to reject the tenets of the "historian" Gasquet...
...In his rejoinder of Octo-tier 9, he insisted upon, if not denying, thoroughly doubting the conversion of England by Saint Augustine...
...New York, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Mr...
...The challenge that he hurls has long ago been refuted, and it has evidently not been thought worthy of an answer...
...A few days later Cardinal Bourne said: "The first period [of our history] began in 597, when Saint Augustine was sent by Saint Gregory the Great to convert the people of this country...
...It says nothing about national prohibition for the very good reason that that legal monstrosity was not seriously thought of in the year 1854...
...Warren is, as she says, "of interest to all...
...TO the Editor:-Gasquet's statements about early Benedictine missions-chiefly the mission of Saint Augustine to England-were objected to by Dom Bede Gray on the authority of Eddius...
...TO the Editor:-Dom Bede Gray's letter in The Commonweal challenging the historicity of the tradition that Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine were Benedictines, is the second of its kind in your paper that has gone unanswered...
...Mary C. Dupee, Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...There are tens of thousands of persons in the United States who supported prohibition for certain states in certain conditions before the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted, and who still believe in that kind of prohibition, but who reject totally the federal variety...
...Everett R. Harman...
...That is all that I meant to say in the passage which Mr...
...However, The Best Poems of 1929, selected by Thomas Moult, was listed in it as a Jonathan Cape publication...
...I showed who Eddius was and how he had been misunderstood by Dom Gray...
...Harcourt, Brace and Company brought the book out here on October 24...
...The works, however, of Paulus Langius, Abbot Cajetan in Italy, Abbot Zieppe in the Lowlands, Yepez in Spain, the Apostolatus of the fathers of the ancient English congregation, Mabillon in his second tome of Analects, and Messrs...
...In all probability, however, it would not maintain the balance between prosperity and depression in the nice and complete way assumed by Mr...
...Bertusi's letter on unemployment and Mrs...
...What Father Mathew's attitude would be toward the Eighteenth Amendment or the Volstead Act if he were now living may be an interesting question for speculation...
...And if he had read Robinson thoroughly, as summarized by Butler, he would have found that Saint Augustine was a Benedictine monk, prior of Saint Andrew's monastery in Rome, which belonged to Saint Gregory the Great (and this is a legend for Dom Gray...
...If he is ever able to do that, I shall be the first to modify my historical opinions, even if I took them from Gasquet's last book...
...The letter from Father Mathew quoted by Mrs...
...Cambden and Selden, have all refuted the challenge, so that it is evidently no longer considered a debatable question...
...The question was first raised by one James Whiphelm, a German whose work has long since been discredited...
...Warren's letter on Father Matthew's attitude toward prohibition...
...Two other authors, Galloni and Spondanus, who wrote on the subject, did not try, it seems, to discredit, but only to question, the tradition that Gregory and Augustine were Benedictines...
...COMMUNICATIONS UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROHIBITION Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:-The relation between the two subjects at the head of this letter is entirely factitious, quite as much so as the relation between prosperity and prohibition...
...See J. Stevenson's Introduction to the edition of Bede's Historia, by the English Historical Society, xxiv...
...The possibility of unduly inflating business activity during prosperity always exists at such times, and the point of undue inflation is always easily reached because of the chronic capacity of our industries to produce more goods than can be sold at profitable prices...
...John A. Ryan...
...And Bede says that Saint Augustine was a monk as well (Chapter xxm...
...But Dom Gray does not take his "history on authority," nor "enslave his judgment," because "history is not built on historians...
...Since this scheme has never been tried, no exact statement of its effects is justified...
...The transfer of labor and capital from public to private industries could easily cause such excessive expansion...
...Menlo Park, Cal...
...The English edition of this book, which was published by Jonathan Cape, was the first review copy to reach this office...
Vol. 11 • December 1929 • No. 6
