Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfec… - Russell Kirk

Manfredo — Your Excellency — how can you, even you, hope...?"
"Life is a jest, and all things show it, my dear," I replied; "and if the most barbarous demagogue of the Congo treats the great of the world with hauteur, why should not such a one as I? Ah, yes: we'd best find time for an appeal to New Delhi, too, and Peiping. The might of Upper Volta must be implored, and the enlightened patriots of Bamako. Effrontery never brought greater rewards than it does in our time. Smile, Melchiora!

With the hard truth in mind, I venture to suggest the corpus of English and American laws – for the two arise for the most pat from the common root of belief and experience - cannot endure forever unless it is laminated by the spirit that void it in the beginning: that is, by religion, and specifically by the Christian people. Certain oral prostates of Christian teaching have. been taken for granted, in the past, as the ground of justice. When courts of law ignore those postulates, we group in judicial darkness..

But wisdom is not got through shouting-matches within one generation.