“True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the passing moment; it is eternal, though we evanescent men experience only a fragment of it. We have no right to imperil the happiness of posterity by impudently tinkering with the heritage of humanity.”
Russell Amos Kirk
American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, lecturer, author, and novelist.
(1918 - 1994)