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Book: Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc
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  1. Joseph Pearce _ Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire

    It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another.
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  2. Joseph Pearce _ Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire

    As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX.
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  3. Joseph Pearce _ Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire

    He could not write what he wanted, but what he had to.
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  4. Joseph Pearce _ Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire

    When Belloc said that the Protestant Reformation was the shipwreck of Christendom, he was simply stating a historical fact, but it was controversial because history is political.
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