Charles Roden Buxton
Charles Roden Buxton (27 November 1875 – 16 December 1942) was an English philanthropist, author, UK Member of Parliament in 1910 and again in 1922–1923, and campaigner for peace. He also served as president of the Quaker Esperanto Society.
Quotes
[edit]- ... Christian faith is, to many people, not primarily a belief in facts at all. It is in a sense a very much simpler thing; but it is a thing less capable of analysis, because more deeply rooted, more elemental. It is that trust or confidence in Christ which contact with Him (or, if you will, with His teaching) inspires.
- "One View of Christianity". The Independent Review Volume IV, October 1904—January 1905: 523–532. (quote from p. 523)
- National culture may some day give place to cosmopolitan culture, but meantime it is a richer and intenser thing. The poetry of a nation, for instance, gains more from the deep roots of national memory and tradition than it loses from the political boundaries which fence it from the air and sun that might come to it across neighbouring gardens. The whole gains by the fuller development of every one of its parts.
- "Chapter. Nationality by Charles Roden Buxton". Towards a Lasting Settlement. 2nd printing. London: George Allen & Unwin. February 1916. pp. 39–59. (quote from p. 52; edited by Charles Roden Buxton; 1st edition December 1915)
- The landlords' land was seized in Ozero in the summer of 1917—that is, during the Kerensky régime, and before the Communists came into power. I was told afterwards that by October of that year there was a single great estate left in the Samara "Government." But it appears that the formal allocation of the land did not take place until after the October (i.e., Communist) Revolution. With the land, the stock and implements (inventar) were distributed also.
- In a Russian Village. London: Labour Publishing Company, Ltd. 1922. p. 26.
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Charles Roden Buxton on Wikipedia
