Quote of the Week: Giovan Battista Vico, “The New Science” (1774)
“So that if worship of providence were forbidden, the natural consequence would be their fall, for a nation of fatalists or casualists or atheists never existed in…
“So that if worship of providence were forbidden, the natural consequence would be their fall, for a nation of fatalists or casualists or atheists never existed in…
“Sooner or later, self-respecting Anglo Saxons who take pride in the blood of Alfred the Great running in their veins, must wake up to smell…
“The Crown has always been under a positive duty to protect the spirit of British liberty. That obligation became especially compelling once universal suffrage permitted…
“I acknowledge the Federal Commonwealth, created by the nation under the Crown to defend its undivided sovereignty over all Australia’s lands and waters. “I acknowledge…
“Democracy is a political form, not a system of government. It has no social content, although the word is frequently misused in that sense. It…
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? [Where is the Great Man?] (1 Corinthians…
The final essay in this series will address the question of government. And, of course, more will be left unsaid than said thereby: we’ve not…
“Finally, there remains one direct consequence of the democratic idea to consider, and this is the negation of the idea of an elite; it is…
¶ It’s now been almost two months since Tony Abbott’s Liberal government came to power over the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-led Labor Party. The relative swing from left to…
“As I departed, Soames mentioned that they were sorry that I would be out of the country and thus unable to attend the independence celebrations,…