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Neither right nor morality can exists independently, but must have the ethical as its pillar and support. In right is wanting the element of subjectivity, and in morality is wanting the objective, so that neither by itself has any actuality.

Only the infinite, the idea is actual.

The right of the subject's particular being to find himself satisfied, the right, in other words, of subjective freedom, constitutes the turning point between the ancient and the modern world. This right in its infinite nature is expressed in Christianity, and has been made the universal active principle of a new form of the world. The Manifestations of this principle are love, romance, morality, and also conscience.

Play #1 - Andromache

'How strange it is that a god has given men antidotes to dangerous reptiles, but when it comes to something worse than vipers or fire, a woman, no one has yet discovered a remedy.'

His wisdom comprehends all incomprehensible things with such incomprehensible comprehension that if it wished always to create new things of every possible kind, each of them unlike its predecessor, none of them could be for him undesigned and unforeseen.

God's wisdom would contain each and all of them in his eternal prescience.

For to defect from him who is the Supreme Existence, to something of less reality, this is to begin to have an evil will. To try to discover the causes of such defection - deficient, not efficient causes - is like trying to see darkness or to hear silence. Yet we are familiar with darkness and silence, and we can only be aware of them by means of eyes and ears - not by perception, but by absence of perception.

Sometimes the demand is made for equality in the division of the soil of the earth, and even of other kinds of wealth. Such a claim is superficial, because differences of wealth are due not only to the accidents of external nature but also to the infinite variety and difference of mind and character. In short, the quality of an individual's possessions depends upon his reason, developed into an organic whole.

Forthwith from out the ark a raven flies
And after him the surer messenger:
A dove sent forth once and again to spy
Green tree or ground whereon his foot may light.
The second time returning, in his bill
An olive leaf he brings, pacific sign.
Anon dry ground appears and from his ark
The ancient sire descends with all his train.

Is this the love, is this the recompense
Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, expressed
Immutable when thou wert lost, not I,
Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss
Yet willingly chose rather death with thee?
And am I now upbraided as the cause
Of thy transgressing, not enough severe
It seems in thy restraint? What could I more?

Finished Part 1 of 2 ✅
- pagans: decimated
- neo-platonists: excoriated

On to the two cities ➡️

If man comes near to God in proportion as he grows more like him, then unlikeness to God is the only separation from him, and the soul of man is estranged from that immortal, eternal, and unchangeable being in proportion as it craves for things that are temporal and changeable.

Two main dangers threaten the existence of democracies: namely, the entire subservience of the legislature to the will of the electorate and the concentration of all the other powers of government in the legislature.

The legislators of the states have encouraged the development of these dangers. Those of the Union have done their utmost to make them less of a threat.

In America the sovereignty of the people is not, as with certain nations, a hidden or barren notion; it is acknowledged in custom, celebrated by law. It expands with freedom and reaches its final aims without impediment.

The people reign in the American political world like God over the universe. It is the cause and aim of all things, everything comes from them and everything is absorbed in them.

Misunderstood in life, Lincoln the statesman often has been misinterpreted since his death. The Radical Republicans detested him as cordially as did the Southern zealots. He was never an Abolitionist. If he could have preserved the Union, short of war, by tolerating slavery, he would have done so, he said: he was no rash transformer of society overnight. The maintaining of order was his steady aim.

From the earliest times in America the colonial people had been a people separate from the British people, though linked to the British by willing ties of culture and friendship. In their act of separating from Britain, Americans did no more than reassert a political autonomy, or independence, rooted in the North American continent ever since the landings at Jamestown and Plymouth.

For political and civil laws are not abstractly ordained or agreed upon at any one moment in history: instead, laws slowly grow out of men's experience with one another--out of social customs and habits--as, one may add, the common law of England developed.

As Montesquieu points out, 'When a people have pure and regular manners, their laws become simple and natural.'

Man is rational; but also man is rebellious and depraved, and his evil impulses cannot be controlled by the Law Rational alone. If men are to live in society, there must be provided checks upon their wills and appetites. Therefore men have developed the Law Positive, that is, law enforced by the commonwealth. To set aside that positive law would be to ruin all civil social order.

Christianity prescribes no especial form of politics. The Church has coexisted with monarchies, autocracies, aristocracies, oligarchies, republics, and democracies. Yet if Christian belief be general among a people, then any political domination is affected by Christian teachings about the moral order. That moral order works upon the political order.

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, 24 centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.

'The historical origins of [American] work ethic may indeed lie in the Protestantism of the country's settlers, but who in the U.S. works hard these days? It is just as likely to be an Ethiopian cabdriver or a Mexican gardener as a person of Anglo heritage living off the dividends in his or her country club.'

- he's seething cuz he knows Americans aren't going to go along with the creedal nation myth lol