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Lord of the World
Lord of the World
Author: Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson wrote two mystical visions of the future. "The Dawn of All" is an extremely romantic and improbable 1911 parable of a 1971 world mostly Catholic and at peace, ready for the Second Coming. "The Lord of the World" came first, in 1907, and was a darker vision. A world of flying craft, major scientific advances, and comfort has be...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781611042160
ISBN-10: 161104216X
Publication Date: 9/17/2010
Pages: 242
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Book Type: Paperback
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A powerful and disturbing book: written from a Catholic point of view in 1906, it anticipates (eerily) much of what is happening today, including the rise of humanistic materialism to supplant true faith and the persecution of those who practice it; as if H.G. Wells had undergone a conversion to the one true faith.



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