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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... tradition of America from the Jacobin laicist tradition of Continental Europe . The Jacobin tradition proclaimed the autonomous reason of man to be the first and the sole principle of political organization . In contrast , the first ...
... tradition of America from the Jacobin laicist tradition of Continental Europe . The Jacobin tradition proclaimed the autonomous reason of man to be the first and the sole principle of political organization . In contrast , the first ...
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... tradition of natural law as the basis of free and ordered political life . Historically , this tradition has found , and still finds , its in- tellectual home within the Catholic Church . It is indeed one of the ironies of history that ...
... tradition of natural law as the basis of free and ordered political life . Historically , this tradition has found , and still finds , its in- tellectual home within the Catholic Church . It is indeed one of the ironies of history that ...
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... tradition of the civilization , and to “ con- serve " it is to accept the radical break with tradition that conservatism exists to overcome . Conservatism is neither reactionary yearning for an irreme- diably lost past , nor is it ...
... tradition of the civilization , and to “ con- serve " it is to accept the radical break with tradition that conservatism exists to overcome . Conservatism is neither reactionary yearning for an irreme- diably lost past , nor is it ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
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