The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Sheed and Phaedo each present an

and Phaedo each present an element of the Socratic vision of death

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The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Sheed and Phaedo each present anEdited by Christopher Dawson and T. F. Burns The Persistence of Order, Vol. I 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 I