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Absolute Atheism Starts In An Act Of Faith In Reverse Gear And Is A Full-blown Religious Commitment. Here We Have The First Internal Inconsistency Of Contemporary Atheism: It Proclaims That All Religion Must Necessarily Vanish Away, And It Is Itself A Religious Phenomenon.

God's Love Causes The Beauty Of What He Loves, Our Love Is Caused By The Beauty Of What We Love.

The Tragedy Of The Modern Democracies Is That They Have Not Yet Succeeded In Realizing Democracy.

That Is Why I Think, In Defiance Of Plato, That There Is At Once Error And Vulgarity In Saying That Poetry Is A Lie, Except In The Sense That Cocteau Wrote One Day: I Am A Lie Who Always Tells The Truth. The Only Poetry Which Lies Purely And Simply Is Academic, Pseudo-classical, Conceptually Repetitive Poetry, And It Is Not Poetry.

Thus Society Is Born, As Something Required By Nature, And (because This Nature Is Human Nature) As Something Accomplished Through A Work Of Reason And Will, And Freely Consented To. Man Is A Political Animal, Which Means That The Human Person Craves Political Life, Communal Life, Not Only With Regard To The Family Community, But With Regard To The Civil Community.