culture – Parmenidean

Book Review: The Ancient City by Numa Fustel de Coulanges (Part I)

“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.

Why Langland’s allegorical poem about the spiritual life ought to inspire us today.

How the modernist prelates’ moral justification for mass migration refutes itself.

How this striking classic of the French stage has much to tell us about the Classical world and our world.

“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.”
– Psalms 52:1

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis