Tea at Trianon: Being Green

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

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Being Green

It should mean being pro-life. (Via The Western Confucian) To quote Our Holy Father: "If we wish to build true peace, how can we separate, or even set at odds, the protection of the environment and the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn? It is in man’s respect for himself that his sense of responsibility for creation is shown." Share

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Because of abortion this country can no longer expect God to "....shed His Grace on thee..." We atoned for slavery, but this is a new and worse evil.; January 19, 2010 at 8:35:00 AM EST
Hans Georg Lundahl said...: @padraiclaughland: indeed!

@both of you:

You might like a closed blog in French, assembling the French messages and personalised pages of the MSN Group Antimodernism killed with the rest of them by Microsoft in 2009, feb:

En français sur Antimodernism

three upmost messages of which are my coeditions on Wikipaedia, two versions of Géocentrisme, one of Parallaxe. Pro-life - down. Pro-environment or anti-excessive automation and fuel consumption - in middle.; January 21, 2010 at 11:58:00 AM EST