{"product_id":"silence-of-the-sea-belloc","title":"Silence of the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest known for his writing on Reformation history and distributist economics, Hilaire Belloc was a masterful essayist who drew inspiration from his travels through Europe, America, and the Near East. His adventurous experiences as sailor, mountaineer, and pilgrim give his writings a vivid richness.\u003cbr\u003eBelloc's encounters with nature were often the starting point for musings that would take on a philosophical bent. As he writes at the beginning of this volume: \"What I most love in the sea is its silence: a sentence that may sound strange till it is closely considered...Because the sea lives (while the land lies inert) we cannot think of it as dumb: nor is it. But it speaks in a veiled fashion as do the oracles of the Gods, whereof it is one, the most universal and the most august of the oracles.\"\u003cbr\u003eIn this eclectic collection of short essays, Hilaire Belloc covers a wide variety of topics dear to his heart, from clocks, hats, and statistics, to historical figures like Jane Austen and Walter Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRIASE FOR THIS BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is Belloc's first volume of general essays for some time, and we realize what we have missed in the interval. They are charming, have a nice quality, a bit-pleasantly-old school. Precise-classical-quiet humor-and touching on everything 'from ships and shoes and sealing wax to cabbages and kings.' There is a suggestion of Logan Pearshall Smith, with less of the barb, and less of the preciosity.\"\u003cstrong\u003e -A 1940 reviewer of \u003cem\u003eThe Silence of the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In these brief essays, Belloc presents with clarity some especially refreshing approaches to important matters-at least matters that should be important to Catholics.... Convinced that, for us men, truth resides in proportion, Belloc will show us his specific meaning with vivid examples both in the writing of true history and biography, and in the expression of beauty.\"\u003cstrong\u003e -Dr. Robert Hickson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Only when life is lived close to the senses, when the intelligence is engaged immediately on what is yielded to man through the body, is the paradox of sadness in created beauty brought home in all its delicacy and inexorableness. Page after page of Belloc's writing is troubled by a deep and troubled gravity, heightened by his profound communion with the things of his world...recurring themes testifying to a vision movingly poetic in its classic simplicity. His eyes are fixed on the primal things that always nourished the human spirit, on the things at hand.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Frederick D. Wilhelmsen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43127219978338,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43127220011106,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/silenceofthesea_4115b4a3-9583-4d28-bf3a-739892bd3ca3.jpg?v=1784329058","url":"https:\/\/osjustipress.com\/products\/silence-of-the-sea-belloc","provider":"Os Justi Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}