Friday, January 20, 2012

Like sheep among wolves

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     " So seen, 'Catholic Action' is at the same time—through the strange [but] providential enchainment of an act of love to t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

"the impulse to scratch when I itch or to pull to pieces when I am inquisitive"

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"But what never claimed objectivity cannot be destroyed by subjectivism.  The impulse to scratch when I itch or to pull to pieces when ...
Monday, January 16, 2012

The hermeneutics of suspicion as fundamentally mechanistic, and in that sense illiberal

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The "reductive program [of the Laplacean fallacy], applied to politics, entails the idea that political action is necessarily shaped by...

A scientific method that has a disintegrating effect on the person or thing it was introduced to understand is of no "scientific value" at all

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"the pursuits of biology, medicine, psychology and the social sciences, may [1-2] rectify our everyday conceptions of plants and animal...

"a kind of propitiation which was not simply a doctrinal transaction"

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     "[Mr Bulstrode] had long poured out utterances of repentance.  But to-day a repentance had come which was of a bitterer flavour, a...

"general doctrine . . . unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling"

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"There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not o...

"we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures."

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     George Eliot, Middlemarch, Bk. 6, chap. 57 (ed. W. J. Harvey (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965), 625).