Monday, March 31, 2014

sufficient unto the day

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     . . . for what so strong,      But wanting rest will also want of might?      The Sunne that measures heauen all day long, At nig...

The riotous fecundity of the divine conception of unity

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"To compel all men to follow the same course towards the same object is a human conception; to introduce infinite variety of action, bu...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

"the normative, indeed the rational, is a wine beyond the purse of naturalism's ontology. . . ."

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     Conor Cunningham, "Dawkins the Neanderthal and Darwin's pious idea," in The unknown God:  sermons responding to the new a...

"the modern idea that we can choose between Hierarchy and equality is, for Shakespeare's Ulysses, mere moonshine."

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When that the general is not like the hive To whom the foragers shall all repair, What honey is expected? . . . Take but degree away, u...

"it is a fundamental principle with the English Lawyers, that Parliament can do every thing, except making a Woman a Man, or a Man a Woman."

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      Jean Louis de Lolme, The constitution of England, or An account of the English government; . . . 4th ed. corr. & enlarged, I.x ((L...
Monday, March 24, 2014

"for we cannot be saved without you"

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God of mercy, free your Church from sin and protect it from evil. Guide us, for we cannot be saved without you.      Oratio, Eveni...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

"In aristocracies the observance of forms was superstitious; among us they ought to be kept up with a deliberate and enlightened deference."

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"Dans les aristocraties, on avait la superstition des formes; il faut que nous ayons un culte éclairé et réfléchi pour elles."  ...