Literary Distractions Hales and clarifying the ambition

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The Heart of Culture is a succinct and substantive history of Western education and a profound witness to the necessity of maintaining tradition

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de Saint Pierre vividly narrates both the visions and Bernadette's later life as a religious sister

Literary Distractions Hales and clarifying the ambitionBy Ronald Knox The written word was but the score of a musical composition; there must be no sentence which was not worthy of being read aloud. Monsignor Ronald Knox wrote these words in homage to Robert Louis Stevenson. Well might he have written them of himself, for the principles he proposes were invariably brought to life in his own writing: his sermons, retreat conferences, detective stories, Scripture translationsand the seventeen essays in