Error Is Indeed Our Enemy, But It

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, And All The Others Knew They Were Giving Rights To Vulgarity. But In So Doing In Addition To Caring For Man's Well-being They Were Providing Rights For Themselves.

We Need History, Not To Tell Us What Happened Or To Explain The Past, But To Make The Past Alive So That It Can Explain Us And Make A Future Possible.

Culture As Art Is The Peak Expression Of Man's Creativity, His Capacity To Break Out Of Nature's Narrow Bounds, And Hence Out Of The Degrading Interpretation Of Man In Modern Natural And Political Science.

Our Nation, A Great Stage For The Acting Out Of Great Thoughts, Presents The Classic Confrontation Between Locke's Views Of The State Of Nature And Rousseau's Criticism Of Them... Nature Is Raw Material, Worthless Without The Mixture Of Human Labor; Yet Nature Is Also The Highest And Most Sacred Thing. The Same People Who Struggle To Save The Snail-darter Bless The Pill, Worry About Hunting Deer And Defend Abortion. Reverence For Nature, Mastery Of Nature- Whichever Is Convenient.

Professors Of Greek Forget Or Are Unaware That Thomas Aquinas, Who Did Not Know Greek, Was A Better Interpreter Of Aristotle Than Any Of Them Have Proved To Be, Not Only Because He Was Smarter But Because He Took Aristotle More Seriously.