Lord Northbourne, the 4th Baron Northbourne, was an agriculturist, educator, translator, and writer on both agriculture and comparative religion. Northbourne translated several of Schuon’s book from French into English. He was educated at Oxford and was for many years Provost of Wye College in England. His first published writings were on “organic” farming (he introduced the term), and he later began to write on Traditionalist/Perennialist themes. A number of Lord Northbourne’s essays appeared in the British journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, and were later included in his books Religion in the Modern World (1963) and Looking Back on Progress (1970). Lord Northbourne’s essential writings are collected in Of the Land and the Spirit.
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