Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Nothing can defeat a people...

"When men revolve to cooperate with the grace of God, the marvels of history are worked: the conversion of the Roman Empire; the formation of the Middle Ages; the reconquest of Spain, starting from Covadonga; all events that result from the great resurrections of soul of which all peoples are also capable. These resurrections are invincible, because nothing can defeat a people that is virtuous and truly loves God."
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-- Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution (Spring Grove, PA: The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, 1993), p. 104.


By way of contrast...


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ca. July 15, 2019

In conclusion:



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1 comment:

JoeD said...

Considering your knowledge of semiotics and how it applies to animals and humans respectively, what are your thoughts on dolphin experiments that seemingly show grammatical linguistic comprehension and even some conceptual learning on their part, by Louis Herman? Here's a short paper: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~johnson//COGS143/Herman10.PDF

What do you think, especially the experiments under the heading of concept learning and language? Do they show intellection in animals or...?