Faith and Freedom
by .Norton, $3.75.
A few years ago, Miss Ward left the , London Economist and settled for a time in Australia, with the result that Faith and Freedom is not, like her previous books, the product of close, day-to-day contact with the problems of the West. The greater part of it is a far-ranging inquiry into the history of human societies, which seeks to establish “the interaction between what is conditioned and what is free in human affairs and the pattern which this interaction has created . . .” Miss Ward, a Roman Catholic, sees the growth of the concept and the reality of freedom as bound up with religious faith; and she takes the view that the Reformation, with its division of Christendom, sowed the seeds of many of the ills which afflict Western civilization. The latter part of the book turns to the contemporary situation, and suggests political and economic measures which will promote freedom and justice in Western society.