Early Southern nationalist leader and South Carolina statesman Robert Barnwell Rhett understood well the crusading spirit of the moralists who have always been aligned against the traditional South. He also understood that the world-view of the South’s enemies is based upon abstractions (such as ‘human rights,’ ‘equality’ and universalism) while the Southern world-view is grounded in the natural universe. He is quoted by Dr William C Davis on page 115 of Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater as saying:
All the inexperienced emotions of the heart are against us; all the abstractions concerning human rights can be perverted against us; all the theories of political dreamers, atheistic utilitarians, self-exalting and self-righteous religionists, who would reform or expunge the bible, – in short enthusiasts and fanatics of all sorts, are against us. …Born in atheism, and baptized in the blood of revolutionary France.
Monday 11 March 2013
Rhett: Abstractions & fanatics against the South
Early Southern nationalist leader and South Carolina statesman Robert Barnwell Rhett understood well the crusading spirit of the moralists who have always been aligned against the traditional South. He also understood that the world-view of the South’s enemies is based upon abstractions (such as ‘human rights,’ ‘equality’ and universalism) while the Southern world-view is grounded in the natural universe. He is quoted by Dr William C Davis on page 115 of Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater as saying:
All the inexperienced emotions of the heart are against us; all the abstractions concerning human rights can be perverted against us; all the theories of political dreamers, atheistic utilitarians, self-exalting and self-righteous religionists, who would reform or expunge the bible, – in short enthusiasts and fanatics of all sorts, are against us. …Born in atheism, and baptized in the blood of revolutionary France.
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