Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - [From the journal Bernal Castillo who was in league with Cortes. What excuse do the women who cheered Ilyse Hogue's gruesome tale of aborting her baby because "she wasn't ready"?] "However this may be, one fine morning the Indians, who had resided near us in the huts and were accustomed to furnish us with provisions and bring gold for barter, had all secretly left with Quitlalpitoc. This, […]

Mandeville, LA - "So far, Venerable Brethren, there has been no mention of the intellect. Still it also, according to the teaching of the Modernists, has its part in the act of faith. And it is of importance to see how. - In that sentiment of which We have frequently spoken, since sentiment is not knowledge, God indeed presents Himself to man, but in a manner so confused and indistinct […]

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note: This excerpt is fully credited to F.H. Buckley and the American Conservative Magazine. Candidate Donald Trump has correctly identified income inequality as a very real problem for real people, here is the proof. - M.C.] "What Obama had spoken to were the classically liberal themes of equality and mobility, of the promise of a better future. The Republicans weren’t interested in inequality—but inequality was interested […]

Mandeville, LA - If we want reform, we must adhere to orthodoxy: especially in this matter (so much disputed in the counsels of Mr. R.J.Campbell), the matter of insisting on the immanent or the transcendent deity. By insisting specially on the immanence of God we get introspection, self-isolation, quietism, social indifference—Tibet. By insisting specially on the transcendence of God we get wonder, curiosity, moral and political adventure, righteous indignation—Christendom. Insisting that […]

Mandeville, LA - Traditional morality was on his [Bentham's] view pervaded by superstition; it was not until we under- stood that the only motives for human action are attraction to pleasure and aversion to pain that we can state the principles of an enlightened morality, for which the prospect of the maximum pleasure and absence of pain pro- vides a telos. 'Pleasure' Bentham took to be the name of a type […]