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The Moral Imagination

The moral imagination is an enduring source of inspiration that elevates us to first principles as it guides us upwards towards virtue and wisdom and redemption.

By Russell Kirk

What is this “moral imagination”? The phrase is Edmund Burke’s, and it occurs in hisReflections on the Revolution in France. Burke describes the destruction of civilizing manners by the revolutionaries: 

...Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles; I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

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