Adventures in Belloc and the Well of Wisdom

My educational progress continues. Lately I'm being schooled in (the best) works of Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953), famously a writer and academic but also the Liberal MP for Salford South (1906 - 1910). Though Belloc was a Catholic - indeed he was fanatically Catholic - there is much merit in Belloc's works for me as an Evangelical and a conservative. I detect something of a kindred spirit: the sheer force; the vision; the satire; the tactics; the activism; the refusal to compromise core principles. As an anti-socialist, and as one with no great love for the worst elements of capitalism either, I am finding Belloc's distributist ideas worthy of deep consideration. Amongst other things I also like Belloc's prescient understanding of islam; what he wrote in the 1930s certainly rings true today. It seems Belloc's first principles are often water drawn from the well of Thomas Aquinas. Though I will never become a Catholic [not least because a Hebraic mind cannot countenance Greek humanistic influences], as an Evangelical I find that there is much to be gleaned from Catholic thinkers about the application of 'moral science' to the pursuit of a political objective. And I also appreciate Belloc's thought on economics themes from a realist perspective. Perhaps my only dilemma if and when I become an assured practitioner of moral science lies in the questions of to what extent politics is a rational activity anyway, and to what extent is political power in any particular set of hands not just a manifestation of whatever spiritual principality it happens to be rooted in? One thing I do know: thinking hard is a perilous activity. What I can conceive with my mind is no substitute for listening to revelation from a much better source - indeed from the well of wisdom Himself.