Encara que, intelectualment, a obra de Peter Maurin ye pro més inferior que a de pensadors de l’altária de Chesterton u Belloc −á qui pren como alacet d’a suya envista d’a economia−, vitalment o suyo heréncio ye digno d’acobaltar.
Naixito de Burdeus en 1877, Peter Maurin estió o caganiedos d’una família de labradors pobres d’o sur de Fráncia que tuvon 21 fillos. Emigró ta Canadá en 1908, d’an que pasó t’os Estatos Unitos ta, á la fin, acoflar-se en Nueva York, an que vivió dic’a suya muerte en 1949.
En o periodico The Catholic Worker, que emprencipió á editar en 1933 junto á Dorothy Day, publicó una série de chiquetas composicions, que clamó Easy Essays. Con estes textos, breus e de buen leyer, aduyó á espardir en Norte America o distributismo d’es devantditos Chesterton e Belloc e a doctrina social d’a Ilésia inspirata en a Enciclica Rerum Novarum d’o Papa Lion XIII.
Dellá d’a suya valura literária, o contenito moral d'os Asayos Sencillos fa que sigan estando chiquetas reflexions plenas d’actualidat. Ve-te-me tres eixemplos:
1. O dar e no lo prener
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
2. O servir e no lo guvernar
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
3. L’aduyar e no l’aplanar
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
4. L’alimentar e no l’avalar
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
5. E si ye menister
O morir e no lo vivir
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
6. Es Ideyals e no es alcuerdos
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
7. O Credo e no l’angrúcia
Ixo fa á l’hombre humano
WHAT MAKES MAN HUMAN// 1. To give and not to take/ that is what makes man human. / 2. To serve and not to rule/ that is what makes man human. / 3. To help and not to crush/ that is what makes man human. / 4. To nourish and not to devour/ that is what makes man human./ 5. And if need be/ to die and not to live/ that is what makes man human./ 6. Ideals and not deals/ that is what makes man human. / 7. Creed and not greed/ that is what makes man human. //
ILÉSIA E ESTATO
A sociedat moderna creye
en a deseparacion d’a Ilésia e o Estato.
Pero es jodigos
no hi creyevan,
es griecos
no hi creyevan,
es meyevals
no hi creyevan,
os puritanos
no hi creyevan.
A sociedat moderna ha deseparato
a Ilésia d’o estato,
pero no ha deseparato
o Estato d’o negócio.
A sociedat moderna no creye
en un Estato d’a Ilésia,
creye
en un Estato de l’hombre de negócios.
“E ye a primer vegata
en a história d’o mundo
que l’estato ye controlato
per es hombres de negócios,
dice James Truslow Adams.
CHURCH AND STATE// Modern society believes/ in separation of Church and State./ But the Jews/ did not believe in it,/ the Greeks/ did not believe in it,/ the Medievalists/ did not believe in it,/ the Puritans/ did not believe in it./ Modern society has separated/ the Church from the State,/ but it has not separated/ the State from business./ Modern society does not believe/ in a Church’s State;/ it believes/ in a business man’s State./ “And it is the first time/ in the history of the world/ that the State is controlled/ by business men,”/ says James Truslow Adams.
SECULARISMO
Quan a religion no tiene res á veyer
con a educacion
a educación no ye que informacion
plena de feitos
e lasa d’entendimiento.
Quan a religion no tiene res á veyer
con a politica
a politica no ye que partidismo—
“Saquemos á es barfulaires
ta que puedan dentrar os buenos amigos nuestros”.
Quan a religion no tiene res á veyer
con es negócios,
es negócios no son que mercantilismo.
E quan a religion no tiene res á veyer
con a educación, a politica u es negócios
se tiene á la religión d’as cosas ocupando
o puesto d’as cosas d’a religion
SECULARISM
When religion has nothing to do with/ education,/ education is only information,/ plenty of facts/ and no understanding./ When religion has nothing to do with/ politics,/ politics is only factionalism—/ “Let’s turn the rascals out/ so our good friends can get in.”/ When religion has nothing to do with/ business/ business is only commercialism./ And when religion has nothing to do with/ either education, politics or business,/ you have the religion of business taking / the place of the business of religion.
