Robert Payne
Robert Payne
fall height decline
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
kings glory pope
All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.
relationship
The small Hitlers are around us every day.
loyalty kings real
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.