{"id":18977,"date":"2023-11-25T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18977"},"modified":"2023-11-25T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:12:43","slug":"reading-thomas-a-kempis-great-art-and-intellectuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18977","title":{"rendered":"Reading Thomas a&#8217; Kempis, Great Art, and Intellectuals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Imitation of Christ by Thomas a&#039;Kempis\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F8f9B7ddwIg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A little from Kempis&#8217;s Imitation of Christ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the video above, I share from an 1898 (or earlier) inexpensive edition of <em>The Imitation of Christ<\/em> by Thomas a&#8217; Kempis. It&#8217;s one of those books that looks as if it could have been valuable (just because it&#8217;s old and if it was in better shape), but it&#8217;s actually a cheap copy. <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagology.com\/goldenage\/goldenage044\/\">This site on Chicago history notes the publisher of my book, Donohue, Henneberry, &amp; Co<\/a>., as purveyors of &#8220;inexpensive and unauthorized copies of popular books,&#8221; mostly fiction. I think my copy is from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryaltemus.com\/donohue\/cloth.html#pop\">set of cloth bound books<\/a>, 50 in the series, sold at 75\u00a2 each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the video is my unpolished reading from the book with a couple comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Art<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/geniuses-behaving-badly\">Does great art come mainly from morally great men? <\/a>&#8220;One lesson of a great city like Florence is that cruelty, greed, and depravity often coexist with civilization\u2019s finest achievements.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>C.S. Lewis<\/strong>: November 29 is the author&#8217;s birthday. He was born in Belfast, 1898. In <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SXb7Mr\">his chronicle of Lewis<\/a>, Colin Duriez notes a meeting of Tolkien, Charlies Williams, Dr. Robert &#8220;Humphrey&#8221; Harvard, Owen Barfield, and Lewis on Nov. 23, 1944. Tolkien said the conversation was &#8220;most amusing and highly contentious.&#8221; Barfield, he said, could meet Lewis head on during a rousing argument, &#8220;interrupting his most dogmatic pronouncements with subtle distinguo&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Intellectuals<\/strong>: Philosopher Roger Scruton talks with Hamza Yusuf about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iawSzFZg-vw?si=Fww-OD5mfrtVfonj\">the natural bent of intellectuals toward leftism<\/a> and what should just as naturally draw them out of it. That&#8217;s the first part of the linked recording. They go on to speak of many other topics, including the King James Bible, English grammar, and Islamic society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tristram Shandy<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2023\/11\/leave-him-something-to-imagine.html\">Writing advice from Laurence Sterne, &#8220;a line drawn as straight as I could draw it.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video above, I share from an 1898 (or earlier) inexpensive edition of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a&#8217; Kempis. It&#8217;s one of those books that looks as if it could have been valuable (just because it&#8217;s old and if it was in better shape), but it&#8217;s actually a cheap copy. 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