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The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

Richard M. Weaver
Democracy, Energy, May
Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.

Richard M. Weaver
Taken, Men, Effort
"Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver. p. 26, 1948.

The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

Richard M. Weaver
Teaching, World, Shifting
Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

Richard M. Weaver
Men, Growth, Mind
"Ideas Have Consequences". Book by Richard Weaver, p. 32, 1948.

The South is the region that history has happened to.

Richard M. Weaver
Southern, Regions, Happened
"The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver".

The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.

Richard M. Weaver
Desire, Ascending, Requirements
Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

Richard M. Weaver
Attitude, Men, Substance
Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

Richard M. Weaver
Healing, Conservative, Medical

The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.

Richard M. Weaver
Attitude, Law, Victory

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