"The passing wish of one generation which has broken with its past is not the will of the people. The presumptuous self-confidence and contempt of its ancestor's values manifested by the present age is precisely the rooted falsehood in Democracy."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJF4uFr3xO8
"If they are slaves, it is also true that they are men, and capable of becoming Christians besides, it is your intention to draw advantage from them, is it not therefore reasonable to take all the care of them as you can?"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlIF3dSaJJU
Peguy here describes the loyalties and duties of the schoolteacher. The teacher must interpret the past to the present, and thus must be in constant communication with the Past.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfOo1NvHZg0
Chapter 3 of The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South
"Certainly, the development of New England's colonies was distinctly different from the southern experience. New England was fast becoming a land of thrifty merchants, shipmasters, and bankers, inspired by the idea of a divine mission... but, in the meantime, often terribly arrogant, as is usual with righteous men, whose arrogance goes hand in hand with humility.
In the South, Renaissance 'gentlemen' believed in a strong individuality and defied adverse fortune by personal virtue. Habitual seigneurs of large land-holdings, without any strong religious discipline, they were fond of good reading, leisure, hunting, and horsemanship. With almost no banking, scarce shipping, and no capitalist faith in predestination, there was little trade outside the selling of their tobacco crops..."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA9W-6Op9mA
"The rule almost everywhere in the country is that a recruit for the force must start at the bottom... This is a good way, perhaps, to train competent night watchmen and traffic regulators, but certainly it is an idiotic way to train detectives. The young man with intelligence enough to be a good detective simply refuses to waste the best years of his youth tagging automobiles parked in the wrong place, and stealing peanuts."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJ8aGGQ4qU
"There are lingering in the world a number of lunatics, among whom I have the honour to count myself, who think it a good thing to preserve as many whole jobs as possible. We congratulate ourselves, in our crazy fashion, whenever we find anybody personally and completely doing anything. We rejoice when we find remaining in the world any cases in which the individual can see the beginning and end of his own work. We are well aware that this is often incompatible with modern scientific civilisation. [...] The point about the 'half-time job' of motherhood is that it is at least one of the jobs that can be regarded as a whole, and almost as an end in itself. A human being is in some sense an end in himself. Anything that makes him happy or high-minded is, under God, a thing directed to an ultimate end. It is not, like nearly all the trades and professions, merely a machinery and a means to an end."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC2HsMUKEXE