R.J.’s Reviews > The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought > Status Update

A man’s liberty, accordingly, is not the liberty to do whatever he wants to do, but only a right to do what he has a “moral right to do.” Hence membership in civil society is not a matter of one’s electing; it is native with every human being, for God, knowing that man is a fallen creature, whose will is disordered, ordained that he live under authority.

Denser than I expected but phenomenal