Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Excerpts from various thinkers: Buber, Gill, Mumford, Suzuki, Gandhi, Haessle, Jewish spirituality, etc.

Item 1 - Folder 01- E.L. Mascall, H. R. Trevor-Roper, and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

First Lines:  Eddington, "Science aims at constructing a world which shall be symbolic of the world of commonplace

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Eric Lionel Mascall, Christian theology and natural science: Some questions on their relations (The Bampton lectures, 1956); Trevor-Roper, H.R., Men and events; historical essays; and Coomaraswamy, Ananda, The Mirror of Gesture (New York, 1936).

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - Folder 02- Herbert Butterfield, and Paul Radin, "Primitive man as philosopher"

First Lines:  1. Perhaps it was because He was so vividly realized as the God of history that Jehovah came to be

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  7

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Herbert Butterfield, History and human relations and Christianity and history; and Paul Radin, Primitive man as philosopher.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - Folder 03- Excerpts from "Peaks and Lamas" by Marco Pallis

First Lines:  The painter invited us to follow him up the ladder into an upper chamber supported on pillars

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  10

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 4 - Folder 04- Excerpts from: Martin Buber, I and Thou, Scribners, 1937.

First Lines:  12 The present, and by that is meant not the point which indicates from time to time in our thought

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 5 - Folder 05- Mount Athos. 1) General Notions on Eastern Monasticism

First Lines:  a) There are no "Orders" like ours. They "follow the Rule of St Basil" but more as a spiritual

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  8

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 6 - Folder 06- Ernst Cassirer, "An essay on man," and Jacques Maritain, "Creative intuition in art and..

First Lines:  Language. Myth as a disease of language? Critique of Max Müller's theory. 142ff.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Ernst Cassirer, An essay on man; and Jacques Maritain, Creative intuition in art and poetry..

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 7 - Folder 07- Extracts from "It All Goes Together" (Selected Essays by Eric Gill)

First Lines:  It is often sayd [sic] that a man can be a very good Catholic in a factory--and that is true.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  10

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Ernst Cassirer, An essay on man; and Jacques Maritain, Creative intuition in art and poetry..

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 8 - Folder 08- Extracts from "The Sky Clears", by A. Grove Day [poetry of the American Indians]

First Lines:  KOROSTA KATZINA SONG [-] Yellow butterflies, Over the blossoming virgin corn, With pollen-painted

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  5

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 9 - Folder 09- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture."

First Lines:  Here we have an appreciation of transcendental aloofness in the midst of multiplicities--which

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  20

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 10 - Folder 10- Johannes Haessle - Le Travail. Paris 1933. [translated from German to French]

First Lines:  Man. As being- has the duty to preserve and develop his being. - instict of self-preservation

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  6

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 11 - Folder 11- Excerpts from Days of Awe, culled by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 1948

First Lines:  22- Book One: Rosh ha-Shanah The Ways of Life

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  18

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 12 - Folder 12- Ernesto Buonaiuti, Ecclesia Spiritualis - in Bollinger Series XXX. Papers from Eramos

First Lines:  "True prophecy (in contrast to 'official' prophecy) arose on the day when under the pressure of

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 13 - Folder 13- Lewis Mumford, The Transformations of Man, Harper & Bro., 1956

First Lines:  164- Already, in the great metropolises and spreading conurbations of the Western world,

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  9

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6