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To: jmc813
Chesterton points out the narrowness of the club (or anyplace where we all think alike) and the richness of the family.

We, here, are an acidental family, joined by chance, Clinton and the constitution.

Chesterton's core is made when he states in Heretics: "The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born."

Dealing with the variety of our own family is what civilizes us, what redeems us and what teaches us love.

517 posted on 01/12/2007 4:58:05 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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Put a sock in it, Ron. Your extremist kookiness will just discredit the cause of small-government. Please don't run.


518 posted on 01/12/2007 6:19:38 PM PST by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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