Christopher Dawson Quotes
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
Dawson, Christopher. Beyond Politics. Sheed & Ward, 1939, p. 23.
This is the libertarian-conservative flip of the famous JFK quotation {589867}.
England did not follow this precept but the United States did and is the only country that did. In all others, education is controlled by the national government. However, Godwin's principle of separating education from government is not maintained in all the states of America. In many, the State government leaves much of the curriculum and the operations of the school to local school boards which have a great deal of discretion. However, in most of the Southern States, the State government dominates and controls education and relatively little is left to the school boards. In some the State chooses the allowable textbooks. In those cases, Godwin's principle is violated, but in most of the North East and Midwest and some of the far West the school boards have great autonomy and Goodwin's principle is upheld. It is fascinating that the more control a particular state exercises of the schools, the poorer the performance of the schools of that state. Goodwin had a terrific insight.
This was a classic debate over universal male suffrage. Rainborough had made a forceful argument for equality as a spokesperson for the Levellers in this famous debate. Ireton (See {619711}) eloquently gave the classic counter-argument that property owners had much more at stake and therefore should have much more of a say on governmental affairs. Early America actually sided with Ireton but modern America holds with Rainborough.
This is just the opposite of the American Democracy in which the government serves the citizens rather than the Fascist opposite notion.
Christopher Henry Dawson FBA was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century". The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
