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Orestes Brownson (1803 - 1876)

  Orestes Brownson was a brilliant 19th-Century essayist and philosopher who excoriated industrial/consumerist soullessness as well as materialist, revolutionary collectivism (particularly the horrible French Revolution).  Despite his championship of exploited laborers, socialism to him was eventual slavery and "a heresy", and he had more than a few words of criticism for Transcendentalism.  He considered God to be first and Last Cause, Personal and orderly.

 

Orestes Brownson Society

 

"Transcendentalism, or Latest Form of Infidelity"

 

 

 

 

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List of Works

 

 

The Canon of the Scripture

 

The Life and Speeches of John C. Calhoun

 

The Decline of Protestantism

 

The French Republic

 

Religion In Society

 

Abolition and Negro Equality

 

Christian Ethics

 

Spanish America

 

Free Labor

 

Constitutional Law

 

 

 

 

 

(not a complete list)

 

 


 

"[T]he multiplication of wants which can be satisfied only with material or sensible goods, is not a good but an evil."

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Revolution has followed revolution, and no political reform goes far enough to satisfy its friends."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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