“ The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution. ”
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
~ Russell Kirk
To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.
Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.
