I gave this talk at a wonderful conference put on by rhe National Party of Ireland.
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1:32 Right thinking is at first hard, then easy, then delightful. And right thinking is what's passed down to us by the traditions of our ancestors. And so I'd like to quote a great Anglo-Irishman, and that is Edmund Burke. He wrote about what we call prejudices and he didn't mean by this anything pejorative, but things that were just long-standing ways of thinking and behaving. He said "Instead of casting off our old prejudices we cherish them. We cherish them because they are prejudices, and the longer they have lasted the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live each on his own private stock of reason because the stock of reason in each man is small." He said, "Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, not a series of reasoned decisions, and through durable prejudices his duty becomes part of his nature. When we act according to traditional wisdom, we act instinctively; it's part of our nature. And we don't dither with thinking about reasons. And so my father was not at all wrong not to have any reasons to explain why we spoke the way we do. It was his nature, and I was wrong even to ask that question. In my own defense, I must say I grew up around a certain number of Yankees who didn't speak the way we did. I didn't have the advantage of living in a coherent society in which traditions go on without being questioned. Of course, reason has its place, but not really in the organization of human affairs. Delaware Representative, John Dickinson, said, experience should be our only guide. Reason may mislead us. And reason, of course, has misled us of course, over and over and over.
During the French Revolution, they proclaimed
Toward the end, at 11:42, Taylor reads from George Frost Kennan's book, Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, 1961.
