A review of Conserving America (St. Augustine Press, 2016) by Patrick J. Deneen
Man has been created by God in such a way that the larger the object of his love the less directly attached he is to it. His heart needs particular passions; he needs limited objects for his attraction to keep these firm and enduring … I am convinced that the interests of the human race are better served by giving every man a particular fatherland than by trying to inflame his passions for the whole of humanitySocrates was a gadfly to his native city and unusually open-minded toward Egyptians, Spartans, and other foreigners. Yet it is also true that he fought for Athens against Sparta during the dreadful Peloponnesian Wars, and that he chose to die rather than flout Athenian law.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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