1. John Colborne Farthing was a Canadian soldier, thinker, philosopher, economist, teacher, and author of the seminal tract Freedom Wears a Crown, published posthumously.
12 Facts About John Farthing
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John Farthing's father was an Anglican priest who rose in the church hierarchy in Ontario, becoming Dean of the Diocese in 1907.
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John Farthing served in Fairbanks and then in smaller Alaska Native villages.
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The youngest of two sons, Farthing attended Lower Canada College, and McGill University.
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John Farthing served the balance of the Great War in France with his battery.
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John Farthing entered the New College to begin Graduate studies.
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John Farthing spent the tumultuous decade of the 1930s and the Great Depression buried in deep thought, with a view to developing new economic theories.
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In Freedom Wears a Crown, John Farthing argues that the world is torn between a United States-style republicanism and Marxian socialism.
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John Farthing contended that Canada and the Commonwealth have the means to direct men to a better way, one proven over many centuries to be the "best" way to order human affairs.
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Much like Richard Hooker in theological and ecclesiastical arguments, John Farthing sought a third way between the political polarities of the day.
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That the unwritten British Constitution is capable of such change, reform, and at times retraction, seems to John Farthing to make it the most sensible form of government.
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John Farthing's work is derivative of Hooker, Burke, and Tory thinkers of English patrimony.