“In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk…”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
In my latest National Post column I say art galleries should not hide paintings after some Muslims call them blasphemous.
“the acknowledged Elizabethan habit of viewing history as a series of object lessons for present conduct.”
Sylvan Barnet’s “Overview” in the 1986 Signet Classic edition of William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
In my latest for BOE Report I say it’s characteristically absurd to claim that global warming, if it is happening, makes it harder for people to live in the Arctic.
“When experience is not retained… infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana, quoted in Leonard Read Let Freedom Reign [I know you all know the 2nd part, but the 1st is also important]
“Mr Wirt: What do you think is going to happen in the next few years of history, Mr Lewis?”
“Lewis: I have no way of knowing. My primary field is the past. I travel with my back to the engine, and that makes it difficult when you try to steer.”
C.S. Lewis “Cross-Examination” in The Grand Miracle