Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Algernon Cecil



Algernon Cecil (pronounced 'Sissil')
1879-1953

"...Cecil’s insight was such that his
utterances were sometimes prophetic. As
long ago as 1925, for instance, he had
warned in his collected Catholic essays, A
Dreamer in Christendom, that liberalismsocialism
threatened society itself: “Let
parents part from one another when they
please, and children be advised to think
about religion as they like, and the
inheritance of property be identified with
theft and a whole civilization will be
presently put out, and that civilization one
that has served us well..."

Selected works of Algernon Cecil
Six Oxford Thinkers (1909)
Essays in Imitation (1910)
A Dreamer in Christendom (1925)
Facing the Facts in Foreign Policy (1941)
Metternich, 3rd edn (1947)
A House in Bryanston Square, 3rd ed
(1950)
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
(1953)

Algernon Cecil: Writers of the Right