The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Sheed we may breathe a pure

we may breathe a pure and invigorating if rather rarefied air

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

he served the Church in a variety of positions

Jo Swerling

and his intellectual disciples included Josef Pieper

The Persistence of Order, Vol. I Sheed we may breathe a pureEdited 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