The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essays

The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essays, RELIGIAO, Angelico Press Ltd

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Introduction 1

Prelude: A Holiday Reading List (Books from a Vanished Library) 5

The Dream-Child’s Progress 15

Upward and Onward 31

The Music of Eternity 37

Origin of the Specious 43

Obama and the Lama 53

The Dawkins Evolution 57

Haiti’s Devils 63

Six Years in Tibet 67

Believe It or Not: On the Very Disappointing Literature of the New Atheis 73

Hypatia Reassembled 91

Taking Liberties: Orlando Furioso Dissacrato 97

Mysteries of Consciousness 105

The Greatest Nation on Earth 109

Charity and Patriotism: Further Reflections 113

Aprés moi le deluge 119

The Mysterious Stranger 125

New Year’s Titanic Gods 133

Golf and the Metaphysics of Morals 137

“Whooshing” Through Life 143

A Modest Proposal 151

Polite Discourtesy 157

A Person You Flee at Parties 163

Farewell to a Mountain 169

The Desire of the Nations 173

Patrick Leigh Fermor, RIP 179

Le Mot Juste 183

Saith the Prescriptivist, Nothing New is Transpired Under the Sun 189

Luminous Wisdom 195

The Needle’s Eye 201

The Inertia of Reputation 205

A Dream for Our Political Season 211

In Praise of Good Bad Books 217

Brilliant Bad Books 221

Therapeutic Superstition 227

The Long March 233

Japan’s Epic 239

These Fragments Have I Shored 245

The Nietzsche of Recanati 251

Reason’s Faith 257

Vinculum Magnum Entis 263

Traditio Deformis 269

Romans 8:19–22 275

Saint Origen 281

Habetis Papam 287

A Dialogue Upon the Island 293

Fie Upon Phi 297

The Scholar and the Nymph 303

Mammon Ascendant 309

Our Atheism is Different 321

Getting to Larisa 327

Christ’s Rabble: The First Christians Were Not Like Us (and a Coda) 335

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