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Imperialism destroys the constitutional republic.
March 22, 2007... Because of its sober and realistic assuptions about human nature and the human condition, the American republic of the Constitutuion of 1789 is not designed to do the big things typical of empires. It is especially not designed to do that which has most characterized empire: conquer. When...

'The last and brightest empire of time': Timothy Dwight and America as Voegelin's 'authoritative present,' 1771-1787.(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) aspired to write epic poetry worthy of a great empire. At Yale College, he and his fellow "Connecticut Wits" intended, in historian Henry May's words, "to provide America and New England with a national literature, and in doing so to show the world that republicans...

On loving thy neighbor.(Poem)
March 22, 2007... Loving thy neighbor is hard to do: that dirty, ignorant, stinking fellow Black or white, Hindu or Jew, requires you to be somewhat mellow. But if you don't do it, who will? It's really a question of love or kill. Rage is a feeling we should rarely use though perhaps there...

Burke's historical morality.(Edmund Burke)(Essay)
March 22, 2007... The precise meaning of the terms "historical understanding," "historical sense," or "historical consciousness" can vary greatly, but they are generally understood as referring to an awareness of the dependence of human existence on the development of events that have taken place in the past....

History for life: simms and Nietzsche compared.(William Gilmore Simms and Friedrich Nietzsche)(Essay)
March 22, 2007... In his biography of William Gilmore Simms John C. Guilds says of his subject that he had "a special fondness for history" and was, in Guilds's view at least, "the only American author of the nineteenth century to envision, design, initiate, and consummate an epic portrayal of the development...