The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, September 9th, 1924.

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Without commerce and industry there can be no middle class: where you had no middle class, you had no Renaissance and no Reformation. We find two examples in Poland and Spain.

v. Pollard. Factors in Modern History p.41

Messrs Hodder & Stoughton are evidently perplexed as to the nature of a charge: but they write civilly enough, & I suppose they must print the thing, though they can't get it out as soon as I expected.

Cardinal Bourne has been the central figure in a Roman demonstration in Sunderland designed apparently to undo the effect of the Anglican celebration of the 1250th anniversary of Benedict Biscop's foundation at Monkwearmouth. His Eminence was in a combative mood, & allowed himself to speak with small courtesy of Anglicans, even using the word "impertinence" of their claim to continuity with the pre–Reformation Church. I was turning over in my mind whether, as Bishop, I ought not to acquiesce in this attack, when a direct appeal to me to do so came from one of the clergy – Knight of Ryhope.

Somebody at Columbia University, New York, has sent me a copy of an Address of Nicholas Murray Butler (Apr. 29, 1924) entitled "Prohibition is now a Moral Issue". It is an extremely fierce denunciation of Prohibition as breeding vice, drunkenness & lawlessness throughout the community.

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