Jaime Balmes

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Father Jaume Llucià Balmes i Urpià (Spanish: Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá, Catalan: Jaume Llucià Antoni Balmes i Urpià) (August 28, 1810 —July 9, 1848), Spanish Catholic priest, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher, was born and died at Vic in Catalonia.

Having attacked the regent Espartero and been exiled he founded and edited on his return the El Pensamiento de la Nación, a Catholic and conservative weekly; but his fame rests principally on El Protestantismo comparado con el Catolicismo en sus relaciones con la Civilización Europea (3 vols., 1842—1844, 6th edition, 1879; Eng. trans. London, 1849). Translated by Charles Ignatius White in 1856 as Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their Effects on the Civilization of Europe, it is an able defence of Catholicism on the ground that it represents the spirit of obedience or order, as opposed to Protestantism, the spirit of revolt or anarchy. The book is often cited as a counter argument to historical accounts that focus on the reputed central role of the Protestant thought to the development of modern society.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

The best of his philosophical works, which are clear expositions of the scholastic system of thought, are the Filosofia Fundamental (4 vols., 1846, Eng. trans. by H. F. Brownson, 2 vols. New York, 1856), and the Curso de Filosofia Elemental (4 vols., 1847), which he translated into Latin for use in seminaries.

Contents 1 Quotea 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Quotea

La lectura es como el alimento; el provecho no está en proporción de lo que se come, sino de lo que se digiere.

"Reading is like eating; the benefits are not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested."

[edit] See also

• Carrer de Balmes

[edit] References

• A. de Blanche-Raffin, Jacques Balmes, sa vie et ses ouvrages (Paris, 1849)
• E. Bullon Fernandez, Jaime Balmis y sus oberas (Madrid, 1903)
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

[edit] External links

• Works by Jaume Balmes at Project Gutenberg
• Catholic Encyclopedia article
• European civilization : Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Balmes at archive.org
• Letters to a sceptic on religious matters (1875) by Jaime Balmes at archive.org
• Fundamental philosophy by Jaime Balmes at archive.org
• Jaume Balmes at Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana(Catalan)