THE CHRISTIAN AFRIKANERS - The Works of F. N. Lee

future, regardless of any developments in other countries. From time to time -- if things look likethey may cause a drop in the growth rate -- South African gold tycoons simply withhold gold saleson the world market. That, of course, drives up the price of gold. In that way, by releasingcontrolled amounts of gold onto the world market each month, they are able to sustain a steadygrowth rate -- regardless of vacillating or even falling growth rates in other important tradingcountries throughout the world.Coming now to Christian aestheticians, we have important figures such as D.F. Malherbe. He isperhaps the pioneer of modern Afrikaans writers, with his masterly work Hans die Skipper(meaning John, the Ship's Captain) -- a very fine novel about the sea. He has also written beautifulpoems about the relationship between Sisera and Deborah, and other works too.Professor Dekker of Potchefstroom University has written extensively on art theory and also on thehistory and development of Afrikaans literature -- as well as giving a systematisation of the variouswritings of Afrikaans writers.Professor D.P. van der Walt has written extensively in this field. He has especially explored thearea of a Christian's attitude toward pornography as an art-form -- and the legal obligations ofcensorship in relation to art-forms deemed to be objectionable by many sections of the population.Then there are Christian legal philosophers and political philosophers -- men like the celebrated Dr.L.J. du Plessis, Professor of Political Science at Potchefstroom University, from whose pen I readextensively the other day (on Calvin's doctrine of the calling of the State to implement the TenCommandments). He is an international figure -- and is regarded as the best in that field even byDutch thinkers.Professor Herman Strauss, whom I referred to in the last lecture, has written extensively in the fieldof civilisation and the qualified franchise in countries with different groups of people and withdifferent levels of civilisation such as South Africa. He has also given theoretical reflection to this-- as well as to the attitude Christians should sustain towards trade unions (whether they bevoluntary trade unions, or compulsory trade unions, as the case may be).There is also Judge G.F. de Vos Hugo. He has written many monographs on the nature of Law andthe extent to which the Law Courts should have some elasticity in their application of the principlesof Law to specific cases brought before the Courts.There is further my old Co-Promoter, Dr. Vessels, Professor of Political Science at the Universityof the Orange Free State. He is a great critic of the United Nations Organisation -- and a man whohas written much on the eschatology of political development and also on the idea of statesovereignty on the international scene.Also, Dr. A.P. Treurnicht wrote a doctoral dissertation under Andrew Murray's grandson, my ownpromoter, Prof. Dr. Andrew H. Murray at the University of Cape Town. Treurnicht's dissertation, astandard work, is on The Relationship Between Church and State in the Thought of AbrahamKuyper. Treurnicht, a minister of the Gospel and later editor of the Kerkbode (or "ChurchMessenger") magazine, left the pulpit to enter politics. There he speedily became a Member ofParliament, and then Leader of the National Party in the Transvaal.He is about the second most powerful man in South Africa today (on the political scene). He waskind enough to write an introduction to my own work The Central Significance of Culture, (whichis printed up in the front of that book). He has also written many other works, such as PartyPolitics and the Future of the Afrikaner's National Culture.