Tag Archives: Edmund Burke

By What Right Do Liberals Rule?

Posted on September 17, 2016 by cwny

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief. I well remember, at every epocha of this wonderful history, in every scene … Continue reading →

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But of Thee, O Lord

Posted on September 10, 2016 by cwny

Viewing things in this light, I have frequently sunk into a degree of despondency and dejection hardly to be described: yet out of the profoundest depths of this despair, an impulse which I have in vain endeavoured to resist has … Continue reading →

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The Long War

Posted on August 20, 2016 by cwny

Worshipping organization in too hard and primitive a sense they threaten to transform the human world into something more like a world of ants. In many respects, therefore, it is dangerous to by-pass history, or imagine that the natural sciences—as … Continue reading →

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The Twilight of the Great God Democracy

Posted on August 13, 2016 by cwny

Instead of the religion and the law by which they were in a great politick communion with the Christian world, they have constructed their Republick on three bases, all fundamentally opposite to those on which the communities of Europe are … Continue reading →

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The Invisible Empire of the European People

Posted on July 16, 2016 by cwny

Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that … Continue reading →

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Incarnational Europe Is Our Beginning and Our End

Posted on July 9, 2016 by cwny

But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften … Continue reading →

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True to Our God and Our Blood

Posted on July 2, 2016 by cwny

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He … Continue reading →

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We All Shall Come Home

Posted on June 18, 2016 by cwny

The indulgence of a sort of undefined hope, an obscure confidence, that some lurking remains of virtue, some degree of shame, might exist in the breasts of the oppressors of France, has been among the causes which have helped to … Continue reading →

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The Trumpet Shall Sound and the Europeans Shall Rise

Posted on June 11, 2016 by cwny

“If you were born to honor, show it now;” – Shakespeare, Pericles __________ I recently saw an Italian nationalist, a Christian, explaining to a hostile newsman the reason why he wanted the Moslems to be sent back to their own … Continue reading →

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Blood, Hearth, and Faith

Posted on May 7, 2016 by cwny

Dickson groaned. What had become of his dream of idylls, his gentle bookish romance? Vanished before a reality which smacked horribly of crude melodrama and possibly of sordid crime. His gorge rose at the picture, but a thought troubled him. … Continue reading →

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