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Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology

This anthology compiles selected writings of Orestes Brownson, a 19th-century American philosopher and theologian, focusing on his exploration of truth in various philosophical and religious contexts. more

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Orestes Brownson
Orestes Brownson

Orestes Brownson was an American writer and philosopher who lived from September 16, 1803, to April 17, 1876. He is known for his contributions to the intellectual and religious debates of his time. more

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“The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.”

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.”

“Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.”