Saturday 14 January 2012

Sublime!

Roger Scruton on T.S.Eliot
...a vision of the modern world from a point of view outside it, a point of view irradiated by an experience of holiness.
and...
The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order, and allow the future to emerge. But it will not emerge, as we know. These philosophies of the "new world" are lies and delusions, products of a sentimentality which has veiled the facts of human nature.

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