Pile Of Prep

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “The significant polarization within American society is between the elites, increasingly unified as a ruling class that relies on the national state as its principal instrument of power, and Middle America itself, which lacks the technocratic and managerial skills that yield control of the machinery of power. Other polarities and conflicts within American society—between religious and secular, white and black, national and […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “The Father of all monks, St. Antony the Great (c. 251‒356) is depicted here as receiving a divine inspiration about the value of work in the life of a monk. He is shown that, far from being an obstacle, or distraction, work must be regarded as an essential element in the quest for prayer without ceasing. Unlike the Angels, we human beings […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “The Father of all monks, St. Antony the Great (c. 251‒356) is depicted here as receiving a divine inspiration about the value of work in the life of a monk. He is shown that, far from being an obstacle, or distraction, work must be regarded as an essential element in the quest for prayer without ceasing. Unlike the Angels, we human beings […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “My own impression is that the net gain was more modest and more questionable than is customarily said. The Northern victory did preserve the Union. But, despite our nationalist “mystique,” our federation of states is a practical condition maintained only by the willing consent of the states and the people. And secession, today, is still not a dead issue … The other […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “Because even by Goldsmith’s day unbridled greed, set free from the healthy, cheerful restraints of Christianity, ran toward ruthless Epicureanism which disguised its radical irrationalism under the painted rubric of the Age of Reason, the so-called Enlightenment, in reality a dark misology which said that reason is the instrument of man and not of truth, and that we are slaves to truthless […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “Because even by Goldsmith’s day unbridled greed, set free from the healthy, cheerful restraints of Christianity, ran toward ruthless Epicureanism which disguised its radical irrationalism under the painted rubric of the Age of Reason, the so-called Enlightenment, in reality a dark misology which said that reason is the instrument of man and not of truth, and that we are slaves to truthless […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “The ancients distinguished four degrees of knowledge: the poetic, where truths are grasped intuitively as when you trust another’s love; the rhetorical, where we are persuaded by evidence, but without conclusive proof, admitting that we might be wrong, as when we vote for a political candidate; next the dialectical mode in which we conclude to one of two opposing arguments beyond a […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “These people - the profiteers, the donors, the politicians, the shady NGOs and the pundits - found their comfortable existence threatened with extinction. Taken together, this class represents the Liberal consensus whose stranglehold accounts for the hypoxia of our times. A victory in which they played no part had made them obsolete. Winning by chance had ruined them. In the absence of […]