Sociological organizations on this planet. Lightnings or rolling the suns, would have to be over man's Our first solicitude, therefore, before we started flashing the And we would finally come to theĬonclusion that the total desires of the whole human race had to beĬonsidered before we should try to make everything for the best in the We would then soon decide that before bringing aboutĪny changes in this scheme of things we needed the opinions and advice Let's hope we would be seized by such a care for the wishes andīeliefs of other men as to constitute an almost infinite sense of That there are men who like cold climates and some who like the rain. Morning to break eternal, bright, and fair we would remind ourselves The awesome and incredible responsibility and that before decreeing a Well, let's hope that we would immediately become conscious of Omnipotence, so far as your little universe is concerned. Said to you or to me: "All right, here is the very wand of So let's suppose this morning that an all-powerful Creator has "improving" the universe, so that it would be better suited to And neitherĪlfonso nor Omar was thinking of changing man to fit better into theįramework of his existence but of changing that framework, of The dreams of man as the center of all consideration. Is not some cosmological purpose in which man is only incidental, but What each of us has in mind, of course, in making the world over, And forty years ago, when I was the age of you young Hand in remaking the world has been an obsession with man since ourĪncestors began establishing squatter's rights to the mostĪttractive caves. But his intriguing thought of personally taking a Specifically to the rather absurd Ptolemaic explanation of ourĪstronomical system. Present at the creation, 1 would have given some useful hints for theīetter ordering of the universe." Alfonso was referring Seven hundred years ago Alfonso of Castile said: "Had I been Relearned and reapplied, the political debate would shift dramaticallyĪnd America would be on the road to greatness once again. Yet if the principles in "the new americanism" were Republican and liberal Democrat have become more a matter of nuance than Largely ignored by our elected officials in Washington, are almostĬompletely forgotten today In fact, in the ensuing 46 years theĬontrasting "philosophies" between the typical conservative He articulated a body of timeless principles for ordered liberty that heĬalled "the new americanism." Those principles, already Pennsylvania, in 1957, the year before founding the John Birch Society. Welch delivered this speech at Dickinson College, Carlisle,
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