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PREFACE My County, it has been proved III the life of every man that though his loves are human, and therefore changeable, yet in proportion as he attaches them to things unchangeable, so they mature and broaden. On this account, Dear Su§sex, are those women chiefly dear to men who, as the seasons pass, do but continue to be more and more themselves, attain balance, and abandon or forget vicissitude. And on this account, Sussex, does a man love an old house, which was his father's, and on this account does a man come to love with all his heart, that part of earth which nourished his boyhood. For it does not change, or if it changes, it changes very little, and . he finds in it the character ot enduring things. In this love he remains content until, perhaps, some sort of warning reaches him, that even his own County is approaching its doom. Then, believe me, Sussex, he is anxious in a very different way; he would, if he could, preserve his land in the flesh, and...

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I dedicate this little essay to you not only because "The New Age" (which is your paper) published it in its original form, but much more because you were, I think, the pioneer, in its modern form at any rate, of the Free Press in this country. ... Read more

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Worthy Read
Great essay.Should be required reading in school to help unsuspecting generations understand that the main stream media has an agenda that is not based on delivering factual unbiased journalism.The fact that this essay was published over 100 years ago adds emphasis to how long this problem has existed and will serve as an example of how the media has shaped politics vs. the people that vote for the politicians.

Prophetic
Rarely have there been two authors as prophetic as G.K. Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc. That their books are still so relevant to so many today is testimony to their enduring greatness. Both these men are thoroughly Catholic authors, and it is this clear headed world view that leads directly to their timelessness.

The Free Press really and truly did shock me. I have known "traditional Catholics" who hate what I, as a Catholic loyal to Vatican II, stand for. Often they quote Belloc or other writers to back up their claims. They often attack ideas like freedom of expression, freedom of religion, etc. etc.

More often than not, when I go to the source materials, I see that the arguments they make rarely hold water. Here too, we see the same. Hillaire Belloc is a great defender of the notion of a free and independent press. He defends advocacy journalism because journals with a clear bias don't pretend to lack bias, so the reader can think about claims critically. He defends FREEDOM to write and think.

He is absolutely prophetic about the profit motive driving modern journalism and the lack of objectivity that causes. One wonders what he would have thought about the blogosphere! Given the content of this book I think he would have been supportive of much it stands for.

This was an amazing read. Heartily recommended.

Prophetic, Brilliant Belloc!
Hilaire Belloc wrote this wonderful and terribly important little book way back in 1918.But its message resonates loud and clear even today.Within this excellent manuscript, Belloc describes an essential fact little known, then and now:Newspapers cost more to print than their unit sales price.So, how do newspapers stay in business, and even prosper?They are subsidized by advertising.

And herein lies the story.Advertising is controlled by the great capitalist fortunes.Therefore these great capitalist fortunes control the press.This is is a lesson that modern folks really need to consider well.Duped by the corporate press, now the mainstream media, they are somehow convinced that the media is populist.Nothing could be further from the truth.The media serves the needs of its controllers, the wealthy.

Belloc also provided rich content relative to a truly free press.This then existed due to the efforts of such as Belloc, and his great friend, G.K. Chesterton.And, in a way, it exists even today with newsletters of specific interest and very important internet web sites, like antiwar.com and lewrockwell.com.Belloc even provides extraordinary insights relative to the insightful usage and evaluation of such aspects of the free press that again resonate even today.

This is, in my opinion, one of Belloc's most important books.And that is saying quite a lot, for I have thus far been privileged to read well more than twenty of the great man's books.It is strongly recommended.Take care.And God bless.

A Free Press vs. A Lying Establishment Press
Hilaire Belloc wrote a thoughtful book about countering the Establsihment Press(The Capitalist Press as he calls it) with a Free Press that was not subject to control by advertisers and Press Barons.Belloc wrote this book c 1917, but his remarks still apply.In fact, if anything, the Establishment Press is exponentially worse 90 years later when the appearance of this book.

Belloc begins this short study with comments on why advertisers pollute "news."Editors and journalists often write to please advertisers even though these same editors and journalists will not use that is advertised since many of the products they plug in their newspapers are harmful to health and safety.The reason why journalists and editors of the Establishment Press is that the advertisers subsidize the Establishment Press, and the editors lose their their self respect and ethical standards to keep the rich subsidies they get.

Belloc does not stop with advertisers.His comments re Press Barons are worth noting.Belloc accuses Press Barons and their cohorts of using newspapers to make or break political figures.Lying journalists can write sordid stories of political figures' personal lives whether or not they are true.The fact that Press Barons get their editors and journalists to lie is not important.As long as a scandal, whether true or not, is published, such a story can destroy a public figure.Press Barons can focus on a political nobody and make his career by favorable attention.Or these same news mogols can ignore a public figure and end his career.

Belloc also makes a case of Press Barons either suppressing knowledge of events or distorting such knowledge.The Establishment Press can fabricate stories and ignore important events.These problems should appear all too familiar to anyone who has sense.

Yet, Belloc offers solutions to these problems.Belloc offers the Free Press as an alternative.An honest Free Press faces hurdles such as lack of advertising subsidies, complete boycott by the Establishment Press, and legal challenges.Yet, Belloc argues that the Free Press can survive. Belloc's criticisms of the Free Press is specialization.Those who edit or write for the Free Press have so many smaller publications that they have a coordination problem. Smaller editors are too focused and often present solid reporting.However, their extreme conclusions often distort their work.

In spite of these criticisms, Belloc has hope.Belloc thinks that the Free Press has the advantage of propaganda which readers may want to offset the lying of the Establishment.Smaller Free Press editors may benefit at the exposure of truth when the Establishment is caught concealing the truth.Belloc also thinks that Press Barons and their poltical cronies may suffer the wrath of readers when they discover the abuse of power and irresponsible rule.

The obsticles that the Free Press may face are not enough to supress their work.Advertising boycotts, legal challanges, blackout from the Establishment, etc. are not enough to ruin the Free Press.Belloc argues that the Free Press will use men who have knowledge, who can write coherently/concisely, and whose work has permament appeal.An example is the Establishments' screaming headline which may get immediate attention.However, the distorted events and bad writing commenting on the headline make such journalism easily forgotten.On the other hand, the small Free Press avoids the screaming headline with solid writing based on knowledge, clear thinking, and good reading which are much more permanent in peoples' memory banks.

Finally, Belloc cites, among others, G.K. Chesterton as an editor of the Free Press.Very few if any can remember the journalistic hacks of the Establishment Press, but learned men and women know of G.K. Chesterton.Those men and women who write and have self respect will not sell their soul to the Establishment press.

This reviewer has one minor criticism.Belloc presents his case very well.However, he could have embellished this book with specific details.For example, he could have named some of the Press Barons and poltical figures whom he condemns.Doing so would have supported his thesis.

THE FREE PRESS is an important book.Many Westerners know their Press Barons lie or are too cowardly to publish the truth.One reviewer remarked that the interneat may be the modern Free Press which is why so many government fluknies want to investigagte it.The fact that so much knowledge can be read on the internet may be a sign that the Establishment Press will either have to change or be exposed for their lying.One can hope that Belloc that the Free Press can overcome the Establishment Press.

Reader and Viewer Beware!
Belloc's prognosticative prowess goes full tilt in his 1918 essay on the press. Belloc sees the development of the press as a child of capitalism: by 1918 the establishment press in England is driven by profit instead of truth, and has incredible power to shape policy and control policy makers. Why?Newspapers sell for less than it costs to produce them.The difference is made up by advertising.Thus newspaper owners are beholden to advertisers and are not inclined to run stories counter to their interest. Newspapers can make or break politicians at will.They tend to suppress discussion of real political issues in favor of manufactured ones so they can spin news according to their own interests.

Sound familiar?Many people will find truth in these descriptions even today, with regard to the major news networks.Belloc sees a remedy: an independent free press.Belloc argues that by reading many different perspectives, extreme though they may be, one can distill the real truth of the matter.He observes this is exactly how we develop opinions outside of the mass media--by listening to a variety of people describe the event and assess their credibility, as in a criminal trial for instance.A free press did exist in 1918, but was in its infancy.Thanks to the Internet, we finally have the truly free press that Belloc predicted would flourish.

This tract might make you rethink the idea of digesting a steady diet of network news only.What you get is not necessarily what you see. ... Read more

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Hilaire Belloc shows us not only the importance of history, but the importance that the truth of history is truly conveyed rather than a false history as so often can happen when there is an anti-Catholic bias. This is just as true today as when he wrote it. ... Read more

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A Rare Gem!
Herein, peerless historian Hilaire Belloc waxes poetic about the life and times of Saint Joan of Arc.The style is somewhat different from Belloc's other great works.However, it is no less enjoyable and perhaps even more artistic than his usual superb prose.Though the book is, sadly, a bit hard to find, it is truly worth the search.Find it. Buy it.Read it.And be enriched.God bless. ... Read more

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THE SECOND By Hilaire Belloc Preserve tfie MLastery of the Sea 9 Jamess instructions to his heir as King of England J. B. Lippincott Company 192,8 IKT DEDICATED TO R. B. CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM PREFACE THIS essay is not a biography, still less a chronicle. It is an attempt to portray a character of capital interest to English and European History, of which our academic historians give but a caricature. Were it either a biography or a chronicle, a great mass of detail would have been added, with which the book has no concern. Were it a biography, it would have been essential to describe all the main facts of the subjects life were it a chronicle, it would have had to include a conspectus of the world contemporary with James at home and abroad and to give the sequence of events in a regular and dated order. Neither of. these tasks appears in the pages that follow. Thus, James was conspicuous and successful as a British Aomiral in two great naval engagements the most important of those fought by the fleet which he had created, and the chief actions of the century. I have given the story of one only, as typical of his attitude in command. He was attacked and betrayed by a good score of men in the small clique of great fortunes all allied by marriage which destroyed the ancient monarchy of the English. I have described but two, as typical of their set, Shaftesbury and his brother-in-law Sunderland. He presided over, and in great part initiated, the making 6f the British Navy his chief work. That in itself would be material for a volume. I have given it but a chapter, and in that chapter have emphasized but two main points his new corps of professional officers j his new idea of a National Fleet independent of pressed merchant auxiliaries. But these are sufficient to show his creative role iii the setting up of that service. The characters and careers of his numerous vii PREFACE mistresses would be essential to a life I have concerned myself only with the very difficult problem of his own emotions in such amours, for that is the point of character. I have thus deliberately selected, because it is surely by such selection of special points in connexion with his temperament, achievement and failures that he can be best presented and, I think, in no other way. But that he should be presented truly is of the first value in understanding England during and sincd his day. The Revolution of 1688 completed the work of the Refor mation. From it dates the Modern Aristocratic England which is nearly all the nineteenth century and our own can conceive of as English. To know the man whose failure produced that Revolution is a thing the nine teenth century and our own has hardly attempted. It is high time the attempt should be made. I trust that in doing so I have exaggerated neither his vice, nor as is the temptation in face of our academic text-books his virtues neither his capacities, which were great and remarkable, nor his deficiencies which were startlingly pronounced and, combined with certain high moral quali ties, led to his ruin. HILAIRE BELLOC Kings Land Shipley Horsham CONTENTS PREFACE Vil I THE CHARACTER 13 II THE CIRCUMSTANCE 30 III THE FIRST EXILE 58 IV ADMIRALTY 8 1 V THE CONVERSION I08 VI THE CONFLICT 139 VII THE ORDEAL 175 VIII DERRY AND THE BOYNE 227 IX THE END 268 NOTE I ON THE NUMERICAL SITUATION OF CATHOLICISM IN ENGLAND DURING THE ATTEMPT AT TOLERATION UNDER JAMES II 28O NOTE II CONSULTATION OF THE COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS, LATE 1687 287 NOTE III ON THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE 293 INDEX 295 FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF JAMES II, AS DUKE OF YORK Reproduced from the painting by John Greenhill, in the Dulwich College Picture Gallery, by kind per mission of the Governors. JAMES THE SECOND ... Read more

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Amazing Untold Story!
Hilaire Belloc relates with profound feeling and a proper sense of wonder the amazing and largely unknown story of the last legitimate King of England, James II.It was this James Stuart who founded the British Navy and whose unyielding adherance to his Catholic faith brought about the so called "glorious revolution", which was really more of an invasion than a revolution.

It is critical to appreciate here that two primary factors set off the usurpation of James by the Dutch financial interests in league with well to do Englishmen, such as the traitorous Churchill.Those factors were the insistence of the rightful King, James II, on toleration of Catholics and, in fact, non-conformists as well, and the birth of his son and heir, James III of his Catholic spouse, Mary of Modena.The former posture would seem to be only reasonable, except for those who are fettered by Platonic totalitarian concepts.But, the latter fact, the birth of a Catholic heir, was what those who hoped to rid England of the influence of the Catholic Church forever could not bear.

Remarkably, while James II was leaving this Earth in French exile, his first cousin, Louis XIV, elected to recognize the dying man's son as James III, the uncrowned King of England.As James II left this Earth, having received the Blessed Sacrament in full knowledge of the Real Presence therein, his still loyal followers could exclaim,

"The King is dead.Long live the King!"

Of course, James III never took the throne.The exceptionally strange son-in-law of James II, William III, the tool and dupe of the Dutch interlopers, reigned in his stead, to be followed by Ann, the rather inept younger daughter of England's last legitimate monarch.

This remarkable story is packed with intrigue and drama not to be found in the best of modern fiction.The reason this powerful drama is not a part of our cultural consciousness can only be attributed to the truth that Belloc so eloquently demonstrates.He who would understand history has to deal with something very powerful.And that powerful thing is Catholic Truth.Those who would deny this truth, who virtually control media and publishing, will do all that is within their considerable power to assure that such truth remains hidden.We are truly and forever grateful for the skill and courage of Hilaire Belloc in bringing these truths to light.

King of The Great Lost Cause
Belloc, that ardent defender of Catholicism, here applies his brilliance to the archetypal Catholic anti-hero, James II of England.James II, who became king on the death of his brother King Charles II in 1685, ruled for barely three years before being cast into exile by his son-in-law, William of Orange, and his daughter, Mary, who thenceforth reigned as William III and Mary II (hence the naming of the college in Virginia).

As Belloc more or less confesses at the outset, he is basically a polemicist, not a biographer, and readers are well advised to treat this book strictly on that basis.Indeed, this book it exemplifies the great potential (and, in some respects, the terrible pitfalls) of the biographical essay.

James II is, in many ways, a gift to the revisionist historian, and Belloc begins by observing, quite rightly, that conventional English history has turned James II into a parody; a petty, bewigged, despot who virtually threw his crown away.As Belloc shows, James was a man of enormous courage, both physically (as Admiral of the Fleet) and spiritually (in that he refused, despite all inducements, to waver in his Catholic faith).His "flight" from England was at the point of a sword, after being betrayed not only by his closest confidants, but by his own daughter!And, as Belloc points out, the gentry that engineered the so-called "Glorious [Protestant]Revolution" of 1688 were a very small, plutocratic elite, hardly representative of Englishmen as a whole.

Belloc is brilliant at bringing out these (heretofore hidden) strengths in James's character; less convincing are his efforts to minimize the strength of Protestant feeling in English life as a whole.By 1685, the English Catholic movement with which James allied himself was, if not a spent force, certainly a small minority.Belloc vents considerable frustration at Charles II's decision to be a "closet" Catholic, but, as the very fact of James II's failure shows, Charles II had little alternative but to keep his religious feelings to himself.

While this is very much a work of opinion, rather than a historical narrative, Belloc provides a fine description of the final, doomed Irish campaign, with a splendid account, complete with maps, of the Battle of the Boyne. ... Read more

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Publisher: London : DraneSubjects: Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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An Interesting Look at Hilaire Belloc.
This book examines the life and political thought of the Catholic intellectual, Hilaire Belloc.Belloc was a radical along with his friend G. K. Chesterton and a Catholic intellectual who lived in Edwardian England.His political thinking was an attempt to provide a sort of third way between capitalism and socialism, which he christened distributivism.Much of this book deals with the turns his thinking took from his beginnings as a radical to his subsequent turn which lead to the publication of his famous book _The Servile State_ and his eventual favoring of monarchy as opposed to the party system.Opposed to socialism, distributivism allows for individual ownership of property and the means of production.Much of Belloc's thinking is opposed to modernism and retains a medieval outlook which is heavily influenced by his Catholicism.Also, Belloc broke with the party system, finding both parties to be driven by the same group of interests, and opposed the new legislation which would eventually give rise to the modern welfare state (which he predicted in his _The Servile State_).Belloc's thinking offers a unique perspective for Catholic individuals who look for an alternative philosophy to that of modern day consumerism, capitalism, and socialism.Unfortunately, society is heading more in the direction of Belloc's servile state and away from the alternative that Belloc proposed.This book offers a fine introduction to his life and the development of his political thought. ... Read more