Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... course . They are there , self - contained ; their being is concrete , actual , accepted . And it may be that sense of being which really is in harmony with the deepest intuitions of the West about the proper mode of the human , for it ...
... course . They are there , self - contained ; their being is concrete , actual , accepted . And it may be that sense of being which really is in harmony with the deepest intuitions of the West about the proper mode of the human , for it ...
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... course of a thousand years , long enough to have aroused reflections on its decline and end . These reflections on Western society as a civilizational course that comes into view as a whole because it is moving intelligibly toward an ...
... course of a thousand years , long enough to have aroused reflections on its decline and end . These reflections on Western society as a civilizational course that comes into view as a whole because it is moving intelligibly toward an ...
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... course , because , before reaching it , democracy itself would be destroyed and the impetus to further reform removed . So far as it does succeed , however , the tendency of democratic reform is to reduce the power available for ...
... course , because , before reaching it , democracy itself would be destroyed and the impetus to further reform removed . So far as it does succeed , however , the tendency of democratic reform is to reduce the power available for ...
Contents
Preface by William F Buckley Jr | 1 |
You Ever See a Dream Walking? by William | 19 |
The Quest for a Tradition | 37 |
Copyright | |
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