Iredell in Minge v. Gilmour
In following up on some research regarding Calder v. Bull and The Decline of Natural Law, I recently had occasion to read this fine opinion by Justice Iredell in Minge v. Gilmour (Cir. Ct. D. N.C. 1798). Recommended.
“Every task usually demands a price, especially a task so lofty as service to truth.”
In an interview with journalist Peter Seewald published as Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millenium, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger explained that the price of serving truth is usually paid out in small coin: Ratzinger: I don’t deny that there has been development and change in my life, but I hold firmly […]
“Now, any truth demands belief …”
In Part V, Chapter 7, paragraph 4 of St. Bonaventure’s Breviloquium, we read: 4. Now, any truth demands belief, so a greater truth demands stronger belief, and the greatest of all truths, supreme belief. Now, the truth of the First Principle is infinitely greater than all created truth and infinitely more radiant than any light […]
