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Posted by Don Martin on January 27, 19101 at 21:43:03:
"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
The Founding Fathers took care to mention posterity in the preamble to the Constitution. How apt are Burke's words to this day. The study of the past has been reduced and to the extent that history is taught it is merely as a compilation of horrors.
Posterity hardly matters in the rush to get and spend. Individualism has triumphed to the exclusion of all values, just as the first amendment has swallowed the founders' notion of ordered liberty.
Perhaps, McCaulay was right. Our Constitution is all sail and no keel.
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