Most will exchange freedom for the security of knowing where their next meal is coming from

Christ “emptied Himself” & veiled His divine attributes, but did not surrender them or His power.

The doctrine of kenosis was misapplied to mean extreme submission to tyrannical power.

The Industrial Revolution came early to Russia, paving the way for fulfillment of Romantic ideals.

If there is no God there is no law or crime & social harmony prevails with everything permitted

With Nihilism essence precedes existence to fulfill its own unique destiny.

Notes from Underground allegorizes the vision of collectivist empathy meeting the needs of all

The great offense of Christianity is its challenge to the state as god on earth, filling all desires

In the legend of the Grand Inquisitor, Christ is arrested by His own church.

Dostoevsky’s works dramatize the lethal implications of various 19th Century philosophies

Biblical slavery is a 7-year program of training in responsibility for adult children

Prisons are a far more effective way to deal with crime than the system of household slavery

God condemned the slave trading of the North, but not the slave owning of the South.

Discrimination against blacks was strongest in states where slavery had never been known

Slavery is a hideous moral evil, equivalent in magnitude to the crime of abortion or murder.

Dabney believed God allowed the North to win because of the righteousness of their cause

Though the slave trade was abolished in 1807, it continued illegally in the North until 1861.

The capture of Harvard by Unitarians in 1805 signaled the end of Puritan New England

The original 13^th Amendment legalized slavery, the replacement abolished it.

Testimonies from the 40-volume Slave Narratives confirmed widespread atrocities.

Only a narcissistic power-grab would limit voting rights to a tiny percentage of the wealthy

The emotional power of the novel prevailed over the logical prose of Bastiat

Bastiat illustrated and popularized the more complex work of Adam Smith

The great crime is perverting the law to attack the life & property it is meant to defend

Under the Constitutional monarchy of Louis XVIII only church members could vote.

Industrialists and socialists clashed because each tried to use law for their own benefit.

Bastiat differs from Adam Smith by including harmony of interests in his economic theory.

Bastiat rests his trenchant economic analysis squarely on the Bible.

The most important function of the law is to ensure that no one goes hungry

No country than France more concerned with rights, and none more torn by Revolution.

Hegel and Goethe were disciples of Thoreau and Emerson

Armenianism exalts the free will of man above the sovereignty of God.

Tocqueville failed to detect the underlying currents sweeping America toward civil war.

The fatal flaw in Democracy is the tendency of the majority to trample the rights of the minority.

Tocqueville was concerned that Americans would emphasize freedom at the expense of equality

The American proclivity for private associations to meet every need fascinated Tocqueville,

Tocqueville said the greatness of America lay in her fertile fields, mines & vast world commerce

The cruelty inflicted on slaves throughout the Southern states horrified Tocqueville.

In his 1831 visit Tocqueville noted the pernicious effect of the 1828 Tariff of Abominations

The older Puritanism had been debased by Arminianism in the 2^nd Great Awakening

The Slave Narratives reveal that almost 90% of Southern slaves had “good masters

Scott’s social mores nurtured a climate of inhumane cruelty toward Southern slaves

The Coda Duella was a feature of Southern culture and a sharp departure from Biblical law

Scott’s portrayal of Rebecca adheres to St John’s stance toward Jews who reject Christ

Scott contrasted Protestant intolerance with Catholic absolution, for his contemporary readers

A mantra of “progress” fueled the second Industrial Revolution

The neo-Puritan values of the South clashed with the Unitarian humanism of New England

Ivanhoe seeks to unite the Saxon factions in Cedric’s party against the despised Normans.

The soft glow of Enlightenment peace gave Scott adequate time to pursue his writing career

Scott began his career in historical fiction, and turned to poetry later in life

Nietzsche rejected the idea of God in every religion, Christian, Greek, Roman, Judaism

The 20^th Century was the bloodiest because the overman can only emerge in the crucible of war

In terms of sheer numbers, the atrocities of Hitler were far more evil than those of Stalin.

Evolution offers the illusion of scientific rationale for unbelief and thus, the death of God

Nietzsche and Dostoevsky were in fundamental agreement regarding the death of God

Nietzsche’s overman is the one by strength best able to protect the weak.

Nihilism is the rejection of morality in the skeptical belief that nothing has real existence.

G.W.F. Hegel is known as the philosopher of evolution

Nietzsche was responsible for extending social applications of evolutionary doctrine

The heart of Nietzsche’s philosophy is the strong have the right to dominate the weak.

Lincoln’s favorite catch-phrase, “preserving the Union” was a euphemism for centralized power.

Lincoln invented the myth that “the Union” had existed in perpetuity before the Constitution.

The victory of Union Troops at Gettysburg struck a blow for self-determination of all Americans

Lincoln favored shipping all the slaves back to Africa.

The South had resisted Lincoln’s attempts to subvert the Constitution for years before the War

The Emancipation Proclamation shows how Lincoln’s attitude to slavery changed during the War

Lincoln was a proponent of big government and crony capitalism his entire political career

Lincoln had been a champion of Negro freedom for years prior to the Civil War.

Lincoln approved of an Amendment granting slavery to all states in his inaugural address

As the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln is the greatest President in American history. (

The populist movement of the late 18^th Century sought socialist solutions for societal problems

Mill believed the individual was free to act except where contrary to the general interest

Mill believed happiness was qualitative, rather than the greatest good for the greatest number.

Queen Victoria welcomed the Romantic reforms, including public education & feminism

Biblically, the state should avoid regulating the economy, especially the banking industry.

Mill’s social theory epitomizes the conflict between the one and the many

Mill looked to the Bible to define the boundaries for acceptable state regulation.

Mill represented a transition between Bentham’s Utilitarianism and Fabian Socialism

Mill’s long career in Parliament coincided almost exactly with the reign of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria ruled with an iron fist in a velvet glove and little concern for her subjects.

“Dickensian”, signifies a colorful variety in character and style in the context of grinding poverty

Dickens’ distaste for government bureaucracy soured him on the growing public school movement

Sacrificial love in the Tale of Two Cities suggests a Dickens surrendering to Christ in his later years.

Penetrating insight on the life of the urban poor, convinced Dickens of the depravity of man

Dickens promotes a spirit of universal brotherhood and private sector solutions to social problems

Dickens prose flows out of a stable and mature, Biblical worldview.

Dickens critical eye for social inequality led inevitably to his advocacy of the socialist solution

The debtor’s prison system flowed from the Biblical requirement to “owe no man anything.”

Bentham’s utilitarian legal system resulted in the exploitation of child labor

The Second Industrial Revolution of the 1800s focused on rail, steel, and textiles

If the mode of relationship is in truth, the individual is in truth, even if related to what is not true

The Bible is the medium through which God witnesses to the truth in the soul of the believer

Because of Kierkegaard, faith and the Bible have been marginalized as irrational and irrelevant.

Although he rejected the secular, Kierkegaard is known as the father of religious existentialism

Truth is relative because God is willing to modify His moral command to accommodate a situation

Abraham’s offering of Isaac was a subjective response to an ambiguous, inner impression.

The existentialist transcends moral absolutes, by a leap of faith in response to the relational Word.

Kierkegaard’s Christian moral foundation neutralized the radical idealism of Hegel.

The attack on absolutes by Kant, Hegel & Kierkegaard, led to national revolutions in the mid-1800s

Kierkegaard proposed 3 phases of existence in Either/Or: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious

The Young Hegelians spent hours in Berlin coffee houses refuting the ideas of Marx

Darwin took easy root in intellectual soil prepared by the plow of Hegel’s dialectic

Hegel’s belief in The Great Social Mind was a corrective to Kierkegaard’s “relative truth.”

According to Hegel, anything that challenges the conservative status quo is potentially useful.

Hegel contributes the specifics on how the sovereignty of God operates in history

History has shown repeatedly that governments are neutral players in the Hegelian dialectic

Medieval thinkers such as Aquinas labored to create a unified field of knowledge

The Hegelian universal mind was taken up in the Pantheism of Emerson and Thoreau.

Fortunately, Hegel’s dialectic was restricted to Germany & suppressed by Hitler’s demise.

Idealism is a philosophy in which reality is defined by some mental construct or idea