MORE FROM JONAH:
"Meanwhile, conservatism has always understood that life is too complicated to be easily defined ? or controlled ? by the human intellect. 'The nature of man is intricate,' wrote Edmund Burke, 'the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity; and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs.' Man is born in sin, God's plan is unknowable, the known and tried, in Lincoln's formulation, is preferable to the unknown and untried: This is the spine of conservatism's humility."
Man, what's not to like about Edmund Burke?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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