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CHARLES STANTON DEVAS

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Political economist, b. at Woodside, Old Windsor, England, of Protestant
parents, 26 August, 1848; d. 6 November, 1906. He was educated at Eton and
Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the honours School of
Law and History. Before proceeding to the university he had been received into
the Catholic Church and his subsequent career was entirely devoted to the
service of religion. By treating political economy, both in books and lectures,
from a definitely Catholic standpoint, he was one of the earliest to oppose the
current teaching, which declined to consider history or ethics as relevant to
the subject.

"The Groundwork of Economics" (1883), the first work published in his own name
(for the translation into English of Hergenröther's "Church and State" was
anonymous), attracted considerable attention and was translated into German in
1896 by Dr. Walter Kämpfe. The "Manual of Political Economy" (Stonyhurst
Philosophical Series), published in 1892 (third edition, 1907), has achieved a
more permanent success, and is now a recognised textbook in English-speaking
schools and seminaries. In 1886 he published "Studies in Family Life", an
historical inquiry into this branch of economics, with a view to justify the
contention that Christianity is an essential factor in the problem of social
well-being. This book was translated into German in 1887 by Paul Maria
Baumgarten. In 1895 he published anonymously in London a poetical version of the
story of Sintram.



Besides his books he wrote frequently for "The Dublin Review", "The Month", and
other periodicals, both English and American, and read papers before The British
Association, The Manchester Statistical Society, The Catholic Truth Society, and
other bodies. A considerable number of his later essays and lectures dealing
with modern social problems have been issued by The Catholic Truth Society in
pamphlet form, and his premature death was a severe loss to English Catholics in
the confusion of the controversies raised by Socialism. His last, and perhaps
his most important, book, "The Key to the World's Progress", was published in
1906. This, unlike his earlier works, is directly apologetic, being an elaborate
defence of the Catholic Church written with a view to meeting the difficulties
and questionings of the twentieth century. A popular edition has been issued
since his death.

In 1874 he married Eliza Mary Katherine, the daughter of Francis Ridout Ward.
She died in 1889, leaving nine children. Devas was a man of singular piety, a
zealous member of the Society of St. Vincent of Paul, and an active friend of
the poor; he had no other ambition except to propose the Catholic Faith to the
reasonable acceptance of a troubled and sceptical age. He took a leading part in
all Catholic enterprises of his time in England — notably in that which enabled
Catholics to frequent the universities — and though always unwilling to make
himself personally prominent, he exercised considerable influence over the
thought and conduct of English Catholics. He was examiner in Political Economy
at the Royal University of Ireland from 1889 to 1898.




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APA citation. Devas, F.C. (1908). Charles Stanton Devas. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04762a.htm

MLA citation. Devas, Francis Charles. "Charles Stanton Devas." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04762a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Anthony J. Stokes.
Dedicated to the memory of Fr Charles Dominic Plater SJ and The Catholic
Workers' College, Oxford.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John
M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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