A great variety of subjects is treated by Jacques Maritain in this new book, but all are concerned with the present position of Christian thought confronted with the problems of our time. For the universal ideas which illumine these pages proceed from a basic belief in “man’s equality as a species in nature,” that awareness of fundamental kinship that unites men in time of crisis. As Maritain points out, “in the common sorrow of great catastrophes, in humiliation and distress, under the blows of the executioner or the bombs of total war, in concentration camps, in the hovels of starving people in Asia, the chords of solitude open and man recognizes man. At once the realism of equality and community in nature is revealed to him as a very precious thing, an unknown marvel, a fundamental basis of existence.” The contents include: “Human Equality”; “The Political Ideas of Pascal”; “The Metaphysics of Bergson”; “The Bergsonian Philosophy of Morality and Religion”; “Who Is My Neighbour?”; “The Mystery of Israel”; “The Catholic Church and Social Progress”; “Sign and Symbol (Magic and Truth)”; and “The Natural Mystical Experience and the Void.” A large part of the book has not been previously published in French. (Please see the opposite end of this cover for extracts from some of the many fine reviews of this most important book.) 12s. 6d. net “The mind of Jacques Maritain glows with charities and is marvellously exempt from spiritual pride. All that he writes is written in a love of mankind, sprung from his sense of human unity. ... So important does it seem that a mind of the quality of Maritain’s should be brought to bear on the contemporary world that we urge his book upon readers.” — The Times Literary Supplement. “A mind such as Maritain’s is exceedingly rare in our age; if this book could be widely read it would do much to deliver us from one of the greatest evils of our time, fanatical mind and superficiality of thought.” — The Welsh Gazette. “A great many contemporary minds, afflicted with a sense of impotence of human remedies for evil, are wondering if Christian faith has anything to say, on a large scale, about it. Well, here is a book very much to the point, crystal-clear thinking, expressed in language chastened, and spiritually a charming mixture of humility, reasonableness and certitude.” — The Dean of Exeter in The Sunday Times. “This book is a genuine feast of interpretation. Maritain deals with the political ideas of Pascal; with the metaphysics of Bergson; with the social teaching of the Roman Church; and with the tragic mystery of the Jew. On all these themes he is both profound and illuminating.” — The Church of England Newspaper. “Jacques Maritain is perhaps the foremost and in many ways the most fearless Roman Catholic philosopher of our day.” — The Reader. “A book distinguished throughout by the most philosophical insight and the most disarming spirit of tolerance and understanding.” — The Church Times.

Maritain Jacques

Redeeming the time