Charles Roden Buxton

Charles Roden Buxton (27 November 1875 – 16 December 1942) was an English philanthropist, author, Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) UK Member of Parliament in 1910 and again in 1922–1923, and campaigner for peace. He also served as president of the Quaker Esperanto Society. Quotes ... Faith in Christianity Christian faith is, to many people, not primarily a belief in facts at all. It is in a sense a very much simpler thing; but it is a thing less capable of analysis, because more deeply rooted, more elemental. It is that trust or confidence in Christ which contact with Him (or, if you will, with Christ#Life and teachings in the New Testament His teaching) inspires. One View of Christianity The Independent Review Volume IV, October 1904—January 1905 https://books.google.com/books?id=nU3d9kF4i-gC&pg=PA523 523–532 (quote from p. 523) National culture may some day give place to cosmopolitan culture, but meantime it is a richer and intenser thing. The poetry of a nation, for instance, gains more from the deep roots of national memory and tradition than it loses from the political boundaries which fence it from the air and sun that might come to it across neighbouring gardens. The whole gains by the fuller development of every one of its parts. Towards a Lasting Settlement Chapter. Nationality by Charles Roden Buxton London George Allen & Unwin February 1916 2nd printing https://books.google.com/books?id=tH7RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52 39–59 (quote from p. 52; edited by Charles Roden Buxton; 1st edition December 1915) The landlords' land was seized in Ozero in the summer of 1917—that is, during the Alexander Kerensky#Russian Provisional Government of 1917 Kerensky régime, and before the Communists came into power. I was told afterwards that by October of that year there was a single great estate left in the Samara Oblast Samara "Government." But it appears that the formal allocation of the land did not take place until after the October Revolution October (i.e., Communist) Revolution. With the land, the stock and implements (inventar) were distributed also. In a Russian Village London Labour Publishing Company, Ltd 1922 https://books.google.com/books?id=bIJJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA26 26 External links Category:1875 births Category:1942 deaths Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Non-fiction authors from the United Kingdom Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Liberal Party (UK) politicians Category:Quakers Category:Philanthropists from England