February 12, 2008
Heretics 14 : On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
“It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage however, n the small state, the city, or the village, which only the willfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us….There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.”
