Sebastian Morello’s Unto the Ages of Ages is a deeply thoughtful set of reflections about Catholicism, Conservatism and England in the twenty-first century. Morello distrusts ideology and abstraction, and defends a piety of love, family and particular connection. This is philosophy through experience and history. Morello’s enemies—the fake, the ugly, the intellectually vulgar—will be your enemies too. —Dr Thomas Pink, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, King’s College London
In Unto the Ages of Ages, Sebastian Morello delivers a ferocious defence of tradition, urging a return to the sacred roots of community and culture amidst secular decay. He dissects and dismantles a dizzying array of the many and various conceptual idols scattered across the wastelands of modernity. Brimming with arresting reflections on family, faith, and folkways, these essays meld philosophical depth, practical wisdom, and political acumen in a manner few other writers today can achieve. Morello’s clarion call for a God-centred conservatism offers hope and clarity to those of us who yearn for meaning and order in our fractured world. —Dr James Orr, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion, University of Cambridge
This is a book unafraid to go where many others fear to tread—undertaking 'the hard slog of retrieving a pre-modern mind and heart' in the political realm, and working admirably against the tide of today's seemingly endless corruptions and false turns. —Dr Jacob Phillips, Professor of Systematic Theology, St Mary's University, Twickenham
Sebastian Morello has emerged as one of our finest writers and thinkers on all the things that matter most to mankind, and yet are strangely most beleagued and betrayed: home, country, friendship, worship, God. Reading his essays is a refreshing draught from a limpid stream of insight and courage; these pages flow with rigorous arguments made whole by deeply-felt sentiment. —Dr Peter A. Kwasniewski, Tradition and Sanity
Many writers of a 'Conservative' or ‘Traditional' bent are quite clear as to what they oppose, but are rather vague as to what they favour. Others seek to separate political from religious questions, and still more are ready to accept the present regime as the best we are likely to get, simply advocating alterations of its most egregious features. In this book, Sebastian Morello falls into none of these traps. Instead, he offers an enthralling, encompassing vision, deeply rooted in the Catholic Faith, seeking to convert—not merely accept—what passes for Modernity. Nor is he what might be called defensive—he sees the struggle today for what it ultimately is: a spiritual battle, and one between good and evil. As you will see in these pages, it is a battle he means for all of us to win. —Charles Coulombe, author of The Compleat Monarchist
