Social Work

Abstract

While Gooch collaborated with Acton during the last five years or so of the great Catholic scholar’s life, his historical studies left him ample time for other pursuits. Gooch was always able to organise his time admirably, supported by a wonderful working capacity and a sturdy health almost to the end. By his mid-twenties his dominant characteristics were well formed: he was deeply religious, very learned, and had a lively interest in the community. He increasingly acquired knowledge of foreign countries, not only of the European continent — like Austria, France, and Italy — but of other parts of the world such as Egypt which he visited in 1902. A stay in. Greece on the return journey from Egypt not only looked back to the ancient past, which meant much to him, but also manifested his increasing interest in the Eastern Question, particularly in the fate of the Christian peoples under the rule or at any rate the shadow of the Ottoman Empire.