Walled Towns (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cram, Ralph Adams

9781330653395: Walled Towns (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330653394 ISBN 13: 9781330653395

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This book laments the pre-war state of the world and the broken promises of industrialism and democracy. The author believes that these ideologies have replaced spiritual exaltation with materialism, leaving society on the brink of collapse. While some see hope in a return to the pre-war status quo or a descent into Bolshevism, the author proposes an alternative: the creation of self-sustaining communities, or "Walled Towns." These towns would reject the excesses of modern life, emphasizing justice, charity, and the production of only what is truly needed. Rooted in the traditions of monasticism, the author envisions these communities as places where people can live more wholesomely, free from the destructive forces of modern civilization. Ultimately, this book challenges our assumptions about what constitutes a good society and offers a thought-provoking path forward in a world facing profound uncertainty.

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Here a stream or canal cuts the houses in halves, a quay with gay booths and mar kets of vari-coloured vegetables along one side, walls of pink brick or silvery stone on the other, jutting oriels hanging over the stream, and high, curved bridges, each with its painted shrine, crossing here and there, with gaudy boats shoving along un derneath. Here a square opens out, ringed with carved houses, - a huge guild hall on one side, with its dizzy watch-tower where hang the great alarum bells; long rows of Gothic arches, tall mullioned windows, and tiers and ranges of niched statues all gold and gules and azure, painted perhaps by Messer Jan Van Eyck or Messer Hans Memling. In the centre is a spurting foun tain with its gilt figures and chiselled para pet, and all around are market booths with bright awnings where you may buy strange things from far lands, chaffering with dark men from Syria and Saracen Spain and Poland and Venice and Muscovy.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The stone-flagged path on the top of the high walls winds along within the battlemented parapet, broken here and there by round turrets, steeple-crowned barriers of big timbers and, at wider intervals, great towers, round or square or many-sided, where bright banners blow in the unsullied air. From one side you may look down on and into the dim city jostling the ramparts with crowding walls and dizzy roofs, from the other the granite scarp drops sheer to the green fields and vari-coloured gardens and shadowy orchards full forty feet below.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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