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Looking Back on Progress

Looking Back on Progress

Looking Back on Progress
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by Christopher James Northbourne; Lord Northbourne

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Collected essays on critiquing the belief in progress from a traditionalist point of view from which so-called progress oftens appears as regress.

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  • Title Looking Back on Progress
  • Author Christopher James Northbourne; Lord Northbourne
  • Binding Papeback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 140
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Sophia Perennis , Ghent, NY
  • Publication date pp. 140 3
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 61016607
  • ISBN 9780900588532 / 0900588535
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.66 x 6.44 x 0.39 in (22.00 x 16.36 x 0.99 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Progress
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001000866
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.44
  • Quantity available 1

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Lord Northbourne (1896-1982), born Walter Ernest Christopher James, Fourth Baron Northbourne of Kent, England, was an agriculturist, educator, translator, and writer on both agriculture and comparative religion. Educated at Oxford, he was for many years Provost of Wye College, the agricultural college of London University. In 2022, Angelico Press republished Lord Northbourne's influential book Look to the Land, in which he introduced to the world the term "organic farming." Northbourne had a gift for expressing the profoundest truths in simple, graceful language. In this book the he does not set out to deal with every aspect of our postmodern predicament (which he so presciently forecast) but instead steps back to diagnose it from several points of view. The penetrating clarity and freshness of the pictures he presents to the reader cannot fail to contribute to a better understanding of the ideology of "progress," both as to its origins and as to its tendencies in today's world. In the absence of some such understanding, even the most well-intentioned actions are likely to be undertaken in vain.

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ANY intelligible conception of progress must be directional; that is to say, it must imply the simultaneous conception of a goal.

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