Tea at Trianon: Darwinism and Conservatives

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, May 7, 2007

Darwinism and Conservatives

Here is an article about Darwinism and how it has affected politics as well as how we view human life. To quote:

The amorality built into Darwinism, West said, explains why it has so easily been employed by eugenicists of both left and right. Reduced to the material processes of chemistry and physics, life as it is, even human life, no longer seems terribly worthy of respect. "Why not use reason to direct evolution to produce a new kind of human being?" West asked, in devil's advocate mode. "What's so sacrosanct about existing human dispositions and capacities, since they were all produced by such a purposeless process?" Share

5 comments:

Michelle Therese said...: Darwinism is like a gigantic hoover - it sucked the world dry of faith in God! My husband was a major neo-darwinian evolution believer but after two years of listening to me argue against darwinism (and him reading some books I gave him) he's starting to agree that there is a lot that evolution leaves to be desired. It's a theory full of holes, frauds and scientific censureship. He's seeing now that the new "Papacy" (the scientific community) are not the open-minded thinkers he always thought they were.; May 7, 2007 at 2:58:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, it really has had more pervasive influence they one may think.; May 7, 2007 at 4:40:00 PM EDT
Apostle to Suburbia said...: Check out this month's Crisis magazine for more about "new kinds of human beings." This movement has a name: transhumanism. Very frightening stuff!; May 7, 2007 at 7:21:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Here it is:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/
may2007/pavlat.htm

VERY SCARY!!!

Thank you, Leeann!; May 7, 2007 at 7:30:00 PM EDT
Michelle Therese said...: Aging is such a noble thing. Why has it become something to scorn? We've lost all respect for our wise learned Elders and all we do is worship Youth. This transhuman stuff is probably a direct result of our youth-worshiping-elder-scorning culture.; May 8, 2007 at 5:09:00 AM EDT