Posted in Tyranny, literature, political theory on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores
And make a sop of all this solid globe:
Strength should be lord of imbecility,
And the rude son should strike his father dead:
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
Between [...]
Posted in Democracy, Ethics, Evangelism and Apologetics, Faith & Reason, literature on March 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Driving back to school I was listening to this opening paragraph from Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and it stuck in my mind, as it seemed to show, not only an insight for paradox, but a keen and perceptive understanding of the nature of the French Revolution and its adversaries.
IT WAS the best [...]
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