ORDĘGA Józef - On Polish nationality from the point of view of Catholicism and progress [Paris 1840] [stamp of the Library of the National Polish School in Batignolles].

Paris 1840, Polish Printing House. 14×22 cm, pp. VI, 93, publisher's booklet. Very good condition (creases on front cover, stamp).

Book with the stamp of the library of the Polish National School in Batignolles (a Parisian high school for post-Uprising émigré youth). The author concludes his reflections on the political currents of the time, Christianity, Polish history: "We have shown that all the new ideas, so called today, both in terms of socialism and all other skills, Catholicism is the source - that it without exception originated all of them - that to it alone we owe the idea of brotherhood and real equality, and that to the realization of such it alone can lead mankind."

Jozef Ordęga (1802-1879) - political activist, participant in the November Uprising, member of the Polish Democratic Society in exile, in the January Uprising of 1863-64 commissioner of the National Government for France.