Tea at Trianon: "The Collapse Will Come, Do Not Doubt It"

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

Saturday, March 2, 2019

"The Collapse Will Come, Do Not Doubt It"

From a year ago but worth reading again. Via Gloria.tv:

Cardinal Robert Sarah has stated that the richness of Africa is “God and the family”. Talking to cathobel.be in January he added that the family is the foundation and if the family is destroyed by deadly ideologies, “the whole society will implode and collapse on itself.”

Sarah sees that this happens “without noise” and “under the effects of an almost complete anesthesia of the public opinion, as we can see at the moment in the West.”

The cardinal reminds that the reason for man’s existence is to live in conformity with the laws of God. If man loses this reason “he wanders like a rudderless ship, and will sooner or later run into the reefs of selfishness and indifference.”

Sarah points out that this happened to the old Roman Empire, “For the West it may take twenty years, fifty years, even a century, but it will happen, do not doubt it, unless the West converts.”

Sarah accuses the Western regimes to use their financial and mediatic power to bring its poison to the poorest and most vulnerable countries, particularly in Africa, “The money is used by the rich to murder Africa and to exploit its mining and human resources.” (Read more.)

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