Eric Gill
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"Arthur Eric Rowton Gill" was an English sculptor, typography/typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaking/printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his Human sexual behavior/sexual behavior, including his erotic art as well as his child sexual abuse/sexual abuse of children and of an Zoophilia/animal.

Gill was named Royal Designers for Industry/Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers, by the Royal Society of Arts. He also became a founder-member of the newly established Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry.

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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

To rebuild the labor movement.

I will not be out there mornings.

There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.

I don't know if it's exactly necessary to have someone. I'm not sure.

Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.