Posted on 01/12/2020 6:51:54 PM PST by Rummyfan
Very, very sad to get the news that Sir Roger Scruton has died of cancer. Details yet to come, but I want to ask your prayers for him and for those who loved him.
This past summer, my friend Laura and I visited him at his farmhouse in Wiltshire. I interviewed him for my forthcoming book about what the experience of resisting Soviet-bloc communism has to teach us about resisting the soft totalitarianism emerging today. Sir Roger was strongly supportive of this book, telling me it was urgently important. I feel so humbled by his friendship and encouragement.
Sir Roger himself took great risks in the 1980s to help the resistance in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Last year, in this piece for the Daily Mail, Sir Roger recalled his role in setting up underground seminars to keep real knowledge and scholarship alive, despite the dictatorship. Excerpts:
Continuing to live in London, I now started travelling to Czechoslovakia for a few days at a time to help manage the network. We imitated Jiri’s methods as best we could, and the result was, I think, a creditable attempt at an underground university, with samizdat (or underground) publications, book smuggling, structured courses on important subjects, and even examinations leading to a degree conferred by the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge.
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That’s a great quote
‘Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude’
mark
He was a great intellect and a really humorous guy with a darling accent. Peace to him, and may his family and friends find comfort in their loss.
I absolutely love this! Thank you!
Thanks for posting...
Following generations do not even know what they are losing.
Hope that book gets circulated!
I just discovered him on youtube about 4 months ago. The world has indeed lost a great man.
This explains a great deal....Why The world seems to be a bit grayer...duller today.
Our loss is heavens gain.
Makes you appreciate the incredible health care that Ruth B. Ginsburg receives, that being 10 years older than Scruton, and having had 4 different cancers, she still beats them, but he gets felled by the first cancer within 6 months.
Roger Scruton was a stand up guy with loads of integrity. It’s a shame what happened to him this last year. Young people could learn a lot from how he dealt with it.
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