Tea at Trianon: Suicide of the Christian West

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, February 9, 2009

Suicide of the Christian West

Scott Richert discusses how the contraceptive mentality will destroy us all. Share

2 comments:

Alexandra said...: I think England is already an unfriendly place for devout Christians, or at least I hear Christians complain about this who live there. It is sad to see their culture fall by the wayside.

My sister lives in London with her family, and she told me that her children had to correct their friends when they thought that the United States discovered England! The children are in lower elementary school, but still! Apparently their educational system is going down the tubes as well, and they go to a "good" school. They are learning a lot of P.C. junk, but not important history. All part and parcel of this new cultural climate.; February 9, 2009 at 12:37:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Ignorance is a frightening thing.; February 10, 2009 at 10:47:00 AM EST