Simplexity

By |2016-07-17T10:00:39-05:00July 3rd, 2013|Categories: Beauty, Communio, Featured, Order, Stratford Caldecott|

Frost Fractal The world as a whole is complex, but it is also a unity. It is “simplex”, founded on simple principles. Poets, painters, scientists and mathematicians are all searching for simplexity in their own way. Aesthetic pleasure is very largely the delight we feel in seeing order, meaning and relationship—the beauty that [...]

Three Pillars of Order: Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith

By |2021-01-07T11:21:29-06:00November 22nd, 2011|Categories: Adam Smith, Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Order, Ordered Liberty, RAK, Russell Kirk|Tags: , |

What Matthew Arnold called “an epoch of concentration” impends over the English-speaking nations. The revolutionary impulses and the social enthusiasms that dominated our century since their great explosion in Russia are now confronted by a countervailing physical and intellectual force. Fanatic ideology has been, in essence, rebellion against the old moral order of our civilization. [...]

In God’s Own Good Time: Reflections upon American Order

By |2021-01-07T11:18:23-06:00November 7th, 2011|Categories: Order, Ordered Liberty, RAK, Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk|Tags: |

Imagine a man travelling through the night, without a guide, thinking continually of the direction he wishes to follow. That is the image of a man in search of order, says Simone Weil: “Such a traveler’s way is lit by a great hope.” Above even food and shelter, she continues, we must have order. The [...]

Order and Happiness

By |2021-01-07T11:28:56-06:00October 30th, 2011|Categories: Order, Quotation, RAK, Russell Kirk|

To protest against the existence of order is to protest against well-being, justice, freedom, and prosperity. Happiness is found in imaginative affirmation, not in sullen negation. Gratitude is one form of happiness; and anyone who appreciates the legacy of moral and social order which he has inherited in America will feel gratitude. The pursuit of [...]

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