The Persistence of Order, Vol. II Hughes “The Wise Architect” who collected

“The Wise Architect” who collected “the vital cords through which wisdom continues among men”

The ultimate source of sustenance

reaches its summit in the Gothic period and enters the exuberant autumn of the Baroque age

Learned yet unpretentious

After his release

The Persistence of Order, Vol. II Hughes “The Wise Architect” who collectedEdited by Christopher Dawson and T. F. Burns The Persistence of Order, Vol. II In 1931, preeminent historian and scholar Christopher Dawson commissioned a new series (titled Essays in Order), whose purpose was, in part, to examine the possibilities of cooperation and of conflict that exist between the Catholic order and the new world. The Persistence of Order comprises fourteen of those commissioned essays, published across three volumes. Volume II