For most people, the actual constitution of society, or that which their more generous passions wish to bring about, is right, and Christianity must … - T. S. Eliot

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

You are the music while the music lasts.

What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal

Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.