Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - From Walker Percy's Lost In The Cosmos, The Last Self Help Book. PC3 stands for Prime Centauri, our nearest star.  Earthship: [We] [r]equest permission to land.... PC3: Not quite yet. You haven't answered our question about C[consciousness]-type. Earthship: What do you mean by type of consciousness? PC3: We are Cls. We wanted to know whether you are Cls or C2s or C3s. Earthship: What is a Cl?.... PC3: […]

Mandeville, LA - "In truth, all human values find their root in Revelation; everything immediately human is related uniquely to Revelation. Man is related to God through Faith, but Faith is the effect of divine grace freely given and it draws the substance of all things human into itself. As a result, a Christian Order of life could come into existence in which ―natural‖ human powers would be freed for full development, a development impossible outside a […]

Mandeville, LA - “Economic fallacy”? Mercantilists (even if they don’t call themselves that anymore) have always worked, often successfully, to convince the American people that their political and economic system which favors special interest groups instead benefits everybody. The “trickle down” theory of which we heard so much in the 1980s is an example. Do you know many persons who were reached by the trickle? Were you? The hard fact is […]

Mandeville, LA - "To sum up the iniquity of this nation in one comprehensive charge, it is godlessness : not atheism in the philosophical sense of denying the existence of God, but that practical atheism which ignores the law and authority of God and the requirements of religion in both public and private affairs: which leaves out of view the law of God as a rule of civil and social life, […]

Mandeville, LA - "What I wish to emphasise is the duality of the human requirement when it comes to the question of size: them is no single answer. For his different purposes man needs many different structures, both small ones and large ones, some exclusive and some comprehensive. Yet people find it most difficult to keep two Seemingly opposite necessities of truth in their minds at the same time. They […]

Mandeville, LA - "Now in all these schemings of theory, by which we have been contriving how to generate, or how we have generated, a government without going above humanity, we lose out all moral ideas, and take away all tonic forces necessary to government. Our merely terrene, almost subterranean, always godless fabric, becomes more and more exactly what we have taken it to be in our philosophy. The habit […]

Mandeville, LA - The city worker is apt to consider farming under any conditions as being beneath him–an inferior occupation all the way round. The tenant farmer of long standing may regard independent landownership as a status utterly beyond his attainment. Both of these attitudes must be changed if the general redistribution of farm property is to become a fact. The bringing about of such a change constitutes a challenge to […]