Carolina QuotesEither order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.
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- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953)
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- 1953
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