Book Review: The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso
“Godfrey, behold the day of battle is at hand…Wherefore delay to free captive Jerusalem?”
– The Liberation of Jerusalem I. 16.
“Godfrey, behold the day of battle is at hand…Wherefore delay to free captive Jerusalem?”
– The Liberation of Jerusalem I. 16.
“The veritable legislator among the ancients was not a man, but the religious belief which men entertained.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
“So it is that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents ever, even when one lives in a fertile place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.”
– Odyssey IX. 33-36
“Fortunately, the past never completely dies for man. Man may forget it, but he always preserves it within him.”
– Fustel de Coulanges
An unacceptable and impractical solution to one of the gravest evils of our time.
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
“He’s as meek as a lamb and the words he utters are kind. If you want to know where he lives, I’m more than willing to show you the way.”
– Piers Plowman, Passus V.
How the modernist prelates’ moral justification for mass migration refutes itself.