Liberty: The Last Essays Classics and the exiled

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Professor of philosophy Harold Hilliard is the author of The Symphony of Discord

By Mother Mary Francis

Liberty: The Last Essays Classics and the exiledBy Georges Bernanos Liberty: The Last Essays, prepared shortly before Georges Bernanoss death, is a final reckoning with the modern world. Written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, these five essays confront the central problems facing the world, Europe, France, each man and woman: the advent of the atomic age, the devolution of democracy, the threat of totalitarianism, the loss of true liberty, and the drastic despiritualization of society.