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Nature, Grace, and Loyalty
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The "two-tiered" understanding of nature that I describe here in Burke should be
compared to the argument running through King Lear about the best way of understanding human "nature."
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I have restricted myself in the text to Burke's Reflections, but the view of nature
described here obviously corresponds to his famous remark in An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs that "[a]rt is man's nature." See Burke, Appeal, in Burke, Further Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Daniel E. Ritchie (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1992), p. 169. Interestingly, Northrop Frye cites this same line from Burke in "Nature and Nothing," p. 39.
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Cf. Charles Parkin: "The source of moral truth, for Burke, is an eternal moral order
which is immanent in the historical process. His morality rests therefore on a religious perception." The Moral Basis of Burke's Political Thought: An Essay (New York: Russell & Russell, 1968), p. 131.
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Cf. the speech of the Athenian laws to Socrates in Plato's Crito (50d-52a).
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I do not think it a stretch to suggest that Chesterton had Dante's example in mind. In
the prologue to Four Faultless Felons, the book of which "The Loyal Traitor" forms a part, Chesterton has Conrad point out that Dante reserved the lowest circle of hell for traitors (p. 11).
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The "two-tiered" understanding of nature that I describe here in Burke should be
compared to the argument running through King Lear about the best way of
understanding human "nature."
24
I have restricted myself in the text to Burke's Reflections, but the view of nature
described here obviously corresponds to his famous remark in An Appeal from the New to
the Old Whigs that "[a]rt is man's nature." See Burke, Appeal, in Burke, Further
Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Daniel E. Ritchie (Indianapolis: Liberty
Fund, 1992), p. 169. Interestingly, Northrop Frye cites this same line from Burke in
"Nature and Nothing," p. 39.
25
Cf. Charles Parkin: "The source of moral truth, for Burke, is an eternal moral order
which is immanent in the historical process. His morality rests therefore on a religious
perception." The Moral Basis of Burke's Political Thought: An Essay (New York:
Russell & Russell, 1968), p. 131.
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Cf. the speech of the Athenian laws to Socrates in Plato's Crito (50d-52a).
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I do not think it a stretch to suggest that Chesterton had Dante's example in mind. In
the prologue to Four Faultless Felons, the book of which "The Loyal Traitor" forms a
part, Chesterton has Conrad point out that Dante reserved the lowest circle of hell for
traitors (p. 11).
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