The Persistence of Order, Vol. II Marcel with its energies and untold

with its energies and untold beauties

despise not the weight of their own crosses

revelation and reason

… Go yea and learn what that meaneth

and if we were to forget that we are animals which are specifically political

The Persistence of Order, Vol. II Marcel with its energies and untoldEdited 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