 | Discerning the Dynamism of Individuals & Peoples - Part 1
How God gives different vocations in History
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| Discerning the Historic Roles of Nations - Part 2
How some nations have a post life and role in History
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| Peoples who Disappear, Peoples who Remain - Part 3
How God calls peoples to History or let them die
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| How a People Fulfills its Vocation - Part 4
The good fruit that comes when man follows Plan A of God
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| How Ghosts & Myths Influence the Psychology of a People - Part 5
The powerful influence of subtle factors that only a few persons discern
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| Reason & Myths - Part 6
How a disciplined mind favors the building of a Catholic society
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| Advantages of Cumulative Property
Harmony between private and collective property in the Middle Ages
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| Customary Law & Roman Law
The role of Roman Law in an organic progress
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| Customary Law, the Foundation & Charm of a Catholic State
A good moral order is transformed into customs, and customs into laws
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| Formation of the Holy Roman-German Empire
The natural development from small states to the empire
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| Monarchy, Aristocracy & Democracy - Part 1
Definitions, examples, nuances of the three forms of government
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| Monarchy, Aristocracy & Democracy - Part 2
Theoretical and practical positions of the Church
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| Monarchy, Aristocracy & Democracy - Part 3
Does authority represent God or the sovereign people?
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| Monarchy, Aristocracy & Democracy - Part 4
Catholic rebuttal to Rousseau’s sovereignty of the people
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| The Art of Organic Government
Orienting the good tendencies of a people and meeting their expectations
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| What Is the Res Publica?
State, Nation, private & public interests explained in an easy way
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| Mittenwald and Its Violins
An ambience conducive to sublimity and art
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| The Three Orders of Medieval Society
All social classes participate in the government of an organic society
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| The Perfect Societies: Church & State
Their nature and the role of participation in their power
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| How Intermediary Societies Participate in the State Power
Organic customs shape an area's culture and personality
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| A Participative Society
Even modest families have a voice in society
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| The Organic Formation of a Region
The healthy development of Galicia around Santiago de Compostela
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| Different Types of Nobility
Many ways for the bourgeoisie to ascend to nobility
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| The Bourgeois in Free Cities and in Kingdoms
Two different kinds and situations, but the same mentality
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| The Healthy Rise of the Bourgeoisie
Historical examples in France, Portugal and Brazil
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| All Classes Should Have Elites
How elites were born in the medieval guilds
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| The City and Its Nobility
How a nobility unlinked to military duties can rise
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| An Élan for Perfection Should Exist in All Classes
This is what was missing in the medieval cities
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| Andorra, the Forgotten Principality
Its unique medieval government and traditions endure to our days
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| Organic versus Revolutionary Progress
Authentic progress stimulates man to practice virtue and strive for Heaven
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| How Man Should Act over His Natural Environment
Criteria to consider in developing land preserving God's plan for nature
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| Oligarchies in Modern Democracies
The myth of the sovereign people and who really controls them today
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| Restoring a Closed Economy
Temperance and a love of perfection lead to a healthy regionalism
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| Two Opposed Poles of Society: Prestige and Money
The mentality necessary for the restoration of a Catholic society
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| Critique of Capitalism from an Organic Perspective - Part 1
Defects of Capitalism that must be avoided in a Catholic society
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| Organic Society & Capitalism - Part 2
The harmful mentality of borrowing money to buy things you don't need
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| Organic Society & Capitalism - Part 3
What to do with the surplus of currency
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| The Role of Economy in the Collapse of the Medieval Mentality
Envy and an artificial demand for products changes the structure of local economies
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| The Decay of the Medieval Guilds
The seed of an unbridled Capitalism entered with a change in mentalities
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| Leadership: Established by Generosity & Gratitude, Not a Social Contract
Critique of the modern conception of power born from an exchange of interests
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| The Natural and Unnatural Decline of the Clan
Different ways to lose vitality in a clan and in an area
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| The State of Mind that Generated the Revolution
The revolted spirit rejects sacrality, respectability and grandeur
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| Clans and Human Types
The healthy development of human types in families, regions, and countries
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| Respectability in the Medieval Professions
The veneration of the people for Bishops, Kings and heads of guilds
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| Two Basic Aspects of the Medieval Mentality
Reverence and tenderness toward Our Lord formed wise men and respectable institutions
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| The Clan and the Family
When the family becomes very large, its fringes generate another reality
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| Proportion between the City and the Man
Maintaining the relationship between city and countryside; limiting a city's size
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| Patriarchs in the Middle Ages and in Ancient Rome
The familiar structure of society as the base of an organic aristocracy
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| The Dream of Catholic Empire and the Medieval Wars
The real cause for the many quarrels was not Feudalism
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| Feudalism and the Modern State
Contention between the feudal power and the cities; birth of Absolutism
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| The Organic Formation of Feudalism
How medieval society took root and sprouted
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| The Peasant-Nobles of the Roncal Valley - Part 1
How this courageous mountain people won the privilege of becoming nobles
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| The Tribute of the Three Cows - Roncal Valley - Part 2
A tribute paid to the peasant-nobles of Roncal Valley every year since 1375
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| Groups of Friends and Guilds
How friendships form and develop in organic society
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| The Coronation Feast for the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
How nobles and people commemorated together
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| Vocations of the European Peoples
How those different peoples were called to love God and reflect His glory
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| The Role of Admiration and Affection in the Family
Admiration is the profound link that binds families and groups
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| Organic Society and The Desire for Heaven
How family ambiences can help a man to feel at home on earth
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| The Steps of an Organic Relationship
How friendhips form in a Catholic society
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| What Is Organic Society?
The members and organs that compose a healthy society
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| The Moon and its Halo
Why should a Catholic be concerned about Society and not only about Religion?
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