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Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, by Bradley J. Birzer (Christendom, 300 pp., $30)
RUSSELL KIRK said that the modern conservative "is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of spirit and character--with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest." The spiritual and moral regeneration of Western man--the ordering of the soul and its relation to the ordering of the commonwealth--was also a central theme for the Welsh-born ...