by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 4, 2015 | Society
The care therefore of every man’s soul belongs unto himself, and is to be left unto himself. But what if he neglect the care of his soul? I answer, what if he neglects the care of his health, or of his estate, which things are nearer related to the government of the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 4, 2015 | Society
Men … paying easy or no taxes, not molested with wars, must vastly increase by natural generation. —John Trenchard. Cato’s Letters No. 106, Of plantations and colonies, Saturday, December 8, 1722. Low taxes, effective guards against the scourge of war, and making...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 4, 2015 | Society
Thomas Malthus was a mentally-ill individual who had a phobia against human happiness and progress. As a symptom of his disease, and in order to trick his fellow man into self-destruction, in 1798 he wrote Essay on the Principle of Population. In it he predicted that...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 4, 2015 | Society
People with other faiths and cultures have always been welcomed in our land, assured of equality under the law, of proper respect and of open friendship. There is absolutely nothing incompatible between this and our desire to maintain the essence of our own identity....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 4, 2015 | Society
Large council estates bring together people who are out of work but enjoy security of tenure at subsidized rents. They not only have every incentive to stay where they are: they mutually reinforce each other’s passivity and undermine each other’s initiative. Thus a...
