Lately, I have found myself increasingly involved in the pioneering adventure of helping to start new schools and colleges in the classical liberal arts tradition. I am on the boards of both Rosary College and another college, the name of which I am not yet at liberty to disclose. The former is a two-year undergraduate […]
Author Archives: Joseph Pearce
A Meditation upon the Meaning and Purpose of Education All civilized people have a great and healthy respect for the Great Books of civilization, those seminal tomes which have helped define who we are, why we are, and where we are. Our culture would be impoverished without them. Indeed, it would be rendered penurious in […]
by Joseph Pearce “The most vociferous and vituperative critic of The Outline of History was Hilaire Belloc, a Catholic historian, poet, and essayist. Belloc’s first attacks against Wells’ History were published in the London Mercury and the Dublin Review. Thereafter, he systematically dissected Wells’ book in a long series of articles in The Universe, accusing […]
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Most people will know H. G. Wells as the author of pioneering works of science fiction, such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Yet one of his most popular and influential works was not a work of fiction but a history of the world. Wells’ The Outline of […]