In August 1915, a year into the war, a summer school at Woodbrooke near Birmingham heard lectures on the common inheritance of the warring nations. These essays, edited by F. S. Marvin, trace shared roots in Greece, Rome and Christianity, in medieval institutions, science, art and literature, insisting that Pascal and Molière belong to everyone.
A thoughtful plea for European unity made in the middle of its worst division. Download the free EPUB.