“[T]he, diverse states of the soul are always correlative with those of the body.”

We are a sovereign state, not a nation-state. Unlike, say, Denmark, we have no official language and no state religion. Our identity is oriented toward the future, not the past. We do have birthright citizenship — though that, curiously, is something many of today’s national conservatives want to abolish. Our national borders have changed repeatedly and may change again.</p><p>America is the country under whose banner the descendants of slaves give military orders to the descendants of slave owners and stand guard alongside the children of immigrants from Greece and Mexico in places like Panmunjom. It’s where the biological son of a Syrian immigrant created our first trillion-dollar company. It’s where Jews celebrate Christmas by going out for Chinese food.</p><p>All this is the essence of America’s exceptionalism. It does not require open borders, rule by U.N. mandarins, obeisance to progressive pieties or any of the other ostensible predations of “globalism” that conservative nationalism claims to oppose.</p>
The New Conservative Pyrite (2019)

"The pool", p. 123
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

2000s, "Why can't we be more like Finland?" (2005)

1860s, Reconstruction (1866)

Phaedrus, p. 47
L'Âme et la danse (1921)

Book IV, sec. 1
Tetrabiblos

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

The Sayings of the Wise (1555)

La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme.
Le Beau Laurence, ch. 1 (1870); Carroll Owen (trans.) Handsome Lawrence (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871) p. 30