Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - "We have already seen that the Constitution of the United States was formed by the States as such, and the reservation above quoted is an admission that, in performing that work, they acted as independent and sovereign States. It is incident to every sovereignty to be alone the judge of its own compacts and agreements. No other State or assemblage of States has the least right to […]

Mandeville, LA - "It is only with one aspect of humility that we are here concerned. Humility was largely meant as a restraint upon the arrogance and infinity of the appetite of man. He was always outstripping his mercies with his own newly invented needs. His very power of enjoyment destroyed half his joys. By asking for pleasure, he lost the chief pleasure; for the chief pleasure is surprise. Hence […]

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: On many occasions I have pointed out that the heresy of Americanism comes from the same error: Modernity. It should not surprise you that communism springs from the same error as well. - M.C.]The belief that socialism had no alternatives stemmed from a presupposition that this system eliminated the root causes of social and economic conflicts, which it will be recalled allegedly set in motion […]

Mandeville, LA - It is then that Christianity, with its conception of man, comes once again to give hope to the world. Without intoxicating him with dreams, without presenting to him suspect novel- ties, today just as twenty centuries ago, strengthened by its unchanged doctrine, by its ever-new sap, it comes to save all, to accomplish all! What it did for the ancient soul recommends it for humanity today, with a […]

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Thanks to Bradley Birzer and his 3 part series on applying Edmund Burke's writings to our time.-M.C.] "It appears to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world. The most […]

Mandeville, LA - "Biologist Richard Lewontin makes explicit the underlying faith that leads scientists to accept a universe that is at heart irrational and thus unknowable rather than acknowledge that the Hand of God shaped nature: “We have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that […]

Mandeville, LA - "I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society, be he who he will; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that cause, in the whole course of my public conduct. I think I envy liberty as little as they do, to any other nation. But I cannot stand forward, and give […]