Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If it is not true that a diving being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals has gone completely off its head.” --G.K. Chesterton If we are to undertake the job of governing ourselves, whether as an individual, or at the family, enterprise, community or religious level, then we need to come to grips with the fact that we can govern ourselves. Any person or society which wants to proclaim independence and extol the virtues of freedom has to embrace as a first principal the idea that the human person is capable of self-regulation. To do this, we must get past the common notion that human beings are not unique or special. The...
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