Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Traditional Family v. The State

In short, these sages, rightly or wrongly, cannot trust the normal man to rule
in the home, and most certainly do not want him to rule in the State.
They do not really want to give him any political power.
They are willing to give him a vote, because they have long
discovered that it need not give him any power.  They are not willing
to give him a house, or a wife, or a child, or a dog, or a cow,
or a piece of land, because these things really do give him power....
A republic used to be called a nation of kings, and in our republic the kings really have kingdoms. All modern governments, Prussian or Russian, all modern movements,
Capitalist or Socialist, are taking away that kingdom from the king.
Because they dislike the independence of that kingdom, they are
against property.  Because they dislike the loyalty of that kingdom,
they are against marriage.

http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/Sanity.txt

GK Chesterton Outline of Sanity

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