Thursday, July 5, 2012

Hiddenness is the root of the matter

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"We learn that our friend's land has been overrun by invaders or stricken by famine, or that our friend has died; or, much worse, w...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

"doctrine must be carefully distinguished from life. . . . [W]e can be lenient toward errors of life", but not toward errors of doctrine.

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"With the utmost rigor we demand that all of the articles of Christian doctrine . . . be kept pure and certain.  This is supremely nece...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

"I never saw the books!"

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Thomas Dahill, Maria Grossmann (2006), via Anne Miniver Press .      Dr. Maria Schweinberg Grossmann, on why she returned to the Andov...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Chutzpah

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The Polanyi Society "far from being discouraged by it, I find this array of distinguished opponents most heartening, for only a pr...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

he who is the most audacious contemner of God is not infrequently the most startled at the loud clatter of a falling leaf. . . .

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passim . . . ut . . . quisque est audacissimus Dei contemptor, ita vel ad folii cadentis strepitum maxime perturbatur. . . .      John Cal...
Monday, June 11, 2012

"Sustained by the belief that a human type exists"

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"the insights [( personal knowledge)] by which we recognize life in individual plants and animals, and distinguish their several kinds...

"'there are some who exhaust themselves learning and investigating things that, once learned and investigated, do not matter in the slightest to the understanding or the memory.'"

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     Don Quixote, in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote II.xxii (trans. Edith Grossman (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2003), 601...