Man and their state
- London Hollis and Carter 1954
- 197p.
I was especially pleased when Mr. Tom Burns wrote to me that he was interested in publishing in England an edition of Man and the State, and wished Mr. Richard O'Sullivan to take charge of this edition. This letter reminded me of good times past, particularly of the time when I first met them both. Tom Burns was beginning to spur Catholic publishing activity with his fascinating and versatile creative energy; Richard O'Sullivan was not yet President of the London Aquinas Society, nor yet an authority on the history and philosophy of Common law, but he was already the most spirited and witty of barristers, an enthusiastic student of the Angelic Doctor, and a genuine disciple of Thomas More's Christian humanism. For a number of years, before the Second World War, we met regularly and worked together on common Thomist conspiracies concerned with acquiring some smattering of Christian wisdom and trying to develop in our contemporaries a bit of interest in it. Now, after the interval of involuntary separation caused by the war, then by my mission as French Ambassador to the Holy See, then by teaching at Princeton University, I am particularly glad to have the opportunity for a new collaboration offered by this book. I am grateful to Tom Burns for publishing it in London, and to Richard O'Sullivan for having generously drawn on his time to make its style less unpleasant to the British reader, and also to add invaluable Notes dealing with more specifically English aspects of the problems I have tackled.