June 28, 2008
Reform implies form...
...We need not debate about the mere words evolution or progress: personally I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape the world in a particular image; to make it something that we see already in our minds. Evolution is a metaphor from mere automatic unrolling. Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road--very likely the wrong road. But reform is a metaphor for reasonable and determined men: it means that we see a certain thing out of shape and we mean to put it into shape. And we know what shape...
-- GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy
(Thanks to DREADNOUGHT)
Posted by John Weidner at June 28, 2008 03:27 PM
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I despise almost everything that the socialist Obama stands for. But I am going to vote for him.
The election of Obama to the office of President of the United States will soon reveal the true soul of the American people. The election of John McCain will reveal nothing. Let the chips fall where they may.....
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