The mutability of nations and cultures, by the author of Solzhenitsyn, A Soul in Exile

In Aeternum: The England that Never Changes

by Joseph Pearce

Recent posts about the United States and England, and especially those concerned with the decline, decay and ultimate disintegration of England have prompted my musings on the mutability of nations and cultures. Is everything subject to change? If so, is there any permanent value attached to these mutable things? Why bother about the USA or England if they are doomed to die?

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...It is a paradox that even the mutable things are in one sense immutable. It is, for instance, true to say that a thing both is and was at the same time.

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Alfred the Great, Bede the Venerable, St. Edward the Confessor, Chaucer, the aforementioned St. Thomas More, the hundreds of English Martyrs, Shakespeare, Austen, Newman, or Tolkien, all of these people are England. Please note: they are England.

(Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce's wrote a biography of the renowned Russian dissident that provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure. Solzhenitsyn, A Soul in Exile)

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