Looking Back on Progress

By: Christopher James Northbourne, Lord Northbourne

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Paperback | 26 January 2025

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Lord Northbourne (1896-1982), born Walter Ernest Christopher James, Fourth Baron Northbourne of Kent, England, was an agriculturist, educator, translator, and writer on both agriculture and comparative religion. Educated at Oxford, he was for many years Provost of Wye College, the agricultural college of London University. In 2022, Angelico Press republished Lord Northbourne's influential book Look to the Land, in which he introduced to the world the term "organic farming." Northbourne had a gift for expressing the profoundest truths in simple, graceful language. In this book the he does not set out to deal with every aspect of our postmodern predicament (which he so presciently forecast) but instead steps back to diagnose it from several points of view.

The penetrating clarity and freshness of the pictures he presents to the reader cannot fail to contribute to a better understanding of the ideology of "progress," both as to its origins and as to its tendencies in today's world. In the absence of some such understanding, even the most well-intentioned actions are likely to be undertaken in vain.

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"The great danger at the moment is a huge muddling and confusing of the spiritual traditions that still survive. As you so well point out, this would be crowning the devil's work. . . . I am very grateful for your important and thoughtful work, and I am sure you can see that I am in the deepest possible sympathy with your views." --Letter to the author from Fr Thomas Merton

"Notions of progress abound more than ever in the echo chambers of the present-day, yet this remarkable little book challenges all profane ideologies by reminding readers of humanity's timeless wisdom. While technological utopianism hastily embraces the rise of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism, to usher in what has been called the "immanentization of the eschaton," this phenomenon is fundamentally dystopic because it only serves to fuel the ongoing dissolution. We are truly living in a post-human world, and this profound work provides glimpses into an abiding realm of transcendence that helps make sense of the manifold abnormalities we are currently witnessing." --Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, author of The Quest For Who We Are: Modern Psychology and the Sacred

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