Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.) Half-title: American conservative thought in the twentieth century. |
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... moral law . The American experiment reposes on Acton's postulate , that freedom is the highest phase of civil society . But it also reposes on Acton's further postulate , that the elevation of a people to this highest phase of social ...
... moral law . The American experiment reposes on Acton's postulate , that freedom is the highest phase of civil society . But it also reposes on Acton's further postulate , that the elevation of a people to this highest phase of social ...
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... moral sentiment , still fixed in its loyalty to the morality of communal ties . Nevertheless , from the experience of individuality there sprang , in the course of time , a morality appropriate to it — a disposition not only to explore ...
... moral sentiment , still fixed in its loyalty to the morality of communal ties . Nevertheless , from the experience of individuality there sprang , in the course of time , a morality appropriate to it — a disposition not only to explore ...
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... morality of com- munal ties survived to make plausible his moral and political impulses . Elsewhere , the modifications he has provoked in po- litical manners and moral beliefs have been extensive , but the notion that they have effaced ...
... morality of com- munal ties survived to make plausible his moral and political impulses . Elsewhere , the modifications he has provoked in po- litical manners and moral beliefs have been extensive , but the notion that they have effaced ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
Copyright | |
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