Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1879

Marginal pencil notation on page 400 of Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953)

Original is missing.

/Kirk:  “Despite the disruptive forces of mass-communication, rapid transportation, industrial standardization, a cheap press …”/

    These things, in themselves, are not evil and not good — only power for either. Destroyers employ them for evil only so far as builders timidly neglect to use them for good.

    Until there is Rationality — understanding: Conservatism only saves, Radicalism only destroys, neither creates.