MASSIS Henri (1886-1970) critique, essayiste et historien [A - Lot 147

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MASSIS Henri (1886-1970) critique, essayiste et historien [A - Lot 147
MASSIS Henri (1886-1970) critique, essayiste et historien [AF 1960, 32e f]. MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Henri Massis", Teilhard de Chardin; 40 pages in-4. Important study on the work and thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The manuscript is written in blue ballpoint pen, on a column occupying the right-hand side of the leaves, allowing for several marginal additions, with significant erasures and corrections, some using checkmarks. "To work for the Reign of God through Science", to disseminate a "new scientific vision of the world" that would allow men, increasingly driven by the gigantic impetus of technology, to "consider Christianity, not as a doctrine of impoverishment, but of fulfillment", such was the object of Father Teilhard de Chardin's endeavor, the mission he wished to accomplish as a priest and as a scholar"... Attached is a manuscript a.s., L'Ordre règne à Berlin, Berlin April 12 [1932] (6 p. in-4, half of p. 5 missing); and 4 L.A.S., 3 of which to Maurice Donnay in 1936 about his academic candidacy.
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