Interesting it is that the spiritual, moral, legal, political and economic infrastructures such as were bequeathed to us by the much
maligned Puritans became the stalwart foundations of a pluralistic Republic which, in its time, has been the greatest temporal engine of human progress that this generally benighted planet has ever known.

In this "Through The Looking-Glass" day, virtually nothing is being portrayed in an even remotely reflective of Reality light.

The idioms in which we express ourselves, which are, necessarily, reflections of the quality and character of our values informed ideation, delimit the circumstances of our existences.

For Man, Freedom, at its most sublime, is a function of his liberation from the dogma and ideology imposed constraints of the interpretation of language, generally, and of individual words, particularly.

As it is written:

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

~ Matthew 6:21

Beria and Goebbels, call your offices.

A frailtly common to Man, on which nationality has no bearing, ultimately, that had its genesis in the Garden.

As a matter of principle and practice, Sovereign Individuals retain and maintain control of their perception of Reality, under all circumstances.

Woe unto those who owe their allegiance to self interested partisanship rather than to principle.

Governments, particularly the Federal Government, in their
contemporary incarnations, exist, primarily, to subsidize sloth, immorality and irresponsibility, at the top and the bottom of our society.

Accordingly, anyone who is an exponent of the illimitable aggrandizement of government must be regarded as being utterly unworthy of being allowed access to its levers of power.

The declension of the nation's spiritual, moral and sociocultural character has been a concommitant of the
ascension of the unholy influences about which Sen. Jenner
so insightfully and cogently expressed himself, sixty five years ago.

Virtue, alone, can countervail the rot.

Thank you, E. Archer, for your ever cogent, ever trenchant, ever insightful and unfailingly excellent commentary.

Lamentably, in a day in which evil is being called good and good evil, a day in which darkness is being put for light and light for darkness, a day in which bitter is being put for sweet and sweet for bitter, the "amiable passions" to which the noble Mr. Adams refers are being comprehensively supplanted, in many, by wholly less than wholesome, informed by alien ideology, and animated by animus, impulses.

The perfection of unauthenticity is realized in the vacuity of contemporary "news" media reportage.

As morbidly without veracity, integrity, moral authority, gravity and credibility as they are, the crypto-propagandists of the MSM characteristically want for every attribute that they would require to legitimately qualify them to bear the designation journalists.

Historically, lamentably, it has not normatively been the noblest among us who have aspired to become journalists.

A rightly principled, reasonable, approach to the education of anyone, to the extent to which he or she is to be prepared to become a Sovereign Individual.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge, under the constraint of Virtue, under the tutelage of understanding, is the only guardian of true liberty.

The viability of the Constitution is wholly predicated upon the Virtue of the people.

Of what import is the Constitution to the ignoble?

Ignorance is perfected in the absence of understanding and insight.

In itself, the acquisition of knowledge does not serve to relieve ignorance.

Accordingly, to be salutary, the acquisition of knowledge must be a concomitant of the development of character.

Ordinarily, it is in the crucible of graciously endured suffering that character is forged.

As the Puritan Divine,Thomas Manton, in his Westminster Epistle, expresses it:

" A family is the seminary of Church and State."

Ultimately, it is the signal, solemn, obligation of the parents of a child to sedulously cultivate his or her character and native faculties, in the midst of their maximizing his or her salutary educational opportunities.

That society can be perfected by means of the social engineering endeavors of an overweening, presumptuously intrusive, State is a signal, carefully conditioned, delusion of our day.

In its most sublime exemplification, Liberty is constituted of, and defined by, the unconstrained by ideology or prejudice right of the Sovereign Individual to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time and for the right reason, according to the dictates of his or her illumined by right reason conscience.

In the absence of love, when and where ideology reigns, an endless proliferation of complexity occurs in human
relationships.

Human interaction ought to be a study in simplicity, rather than an impossibility of complexity.

Since much of that which is commonly characterized as being education normatively assumes the form of emulation, the most sublime instruction of all is that supplied by the Sovereign Individual as he or she exercises his or her Divine and natural right to reason illumined self government.

The cardinal calling of any parent is the cultivation of his or her child's innate capacity for sovereign self government.

Liberty is the child of virtue and understanding informed intelligence.