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Morals & the servile mind: On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.

By ADF Alliance Alert

Kenneth Minogue writes at the New Criterion: "The fate of the Romans under Tiberius, who followed Augustus, was alarming beyond anything even imaginable in our time, but we should not forget the broader lesson: that over long stretches of time, the moral changes that take place only become evident in the light of some unexpected crisis. It is a lesson that ought to make us wary of our easy-going and liberated ways. Our world is infinitely benign, and we are in no immediate danger of falling into the distractions and treacheries that afflicted the early days of Rome under the Principate. But we should never forget that moral change never ceases, and it takes place below, and often deeply below, the surface of a culture." Hat tip: Todd Zywiki at the Volokh Conspiracy

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).