The Roots of American Order by Kirk, Russell -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Foreword Chapter I: Order, the First Need of All Chapter II: The Law and the Prophets

From Mount Sinai to Massachusetts Bay Jerusalem: Triumph and Disaster The God of Justice Righteousness and Wrath Under God in Time and History The Old Testament and the New America

Chapter III: Glory and Ruin: the Greek World

The One Betraying Flaw of the Hellenes Solon and the Athenian Polity And That House Fell The Cave and the Dust-Storm Aristotle and Political Forms

Chapter IV: Virtue and Power: the Roman Tension

The High Old Roman Virtue Cicero and the Law of Nature Imperial Splendor and Misery Marcus Aurelius as Exemplar These Ruins Are Inhabited

Chapter V: the Genius of Christianity

The Suffering Servant Comes We Are God's Utopia Living in a Sinful World Two There Are by Whom this World Is Ruled

Chapter VI: The Light of the Middle Ages

A Neglected Inheritance The Reign of Law The Frame of the English Constitution The Sword of Faith Schoolmen and Universities

Chapter VII: The Reformers’ Drum

A Little Lower than the Angels The Priesthood of All Believers England's Middle Path Kirk and Covenant

Chapter VIII: The Constitution of Church and State

Civil War and Recovery of Order The Face of Leviathan An Anglican Doctor and a Puritan Lay Preacher A Note on John Locke The Politics of Whigs

Chapter IX: Salutary Neglect: the Colonial Order

Austerity, Isolation, and Freedom American Gentlemen Representative Assemblies and Local Autonomy The New World's Christianity

Chapter X: Eighteenth-Century Intellects

Constitutional Order: Montesquieu Skeptical Realism: Hume The Laws of England: Blackstone The Politics of Prudence: Burke

Chapter XI: Declaration and Constitution

A Revolution Not Made, but Prevented? Justifying the Separation The Spirit of Laws Realized: the New Constitution The Federal Constitution and Religious Belief

Chapter XII: Contending against American Disorder

The Power of Laws and Mores Lincoln and the Defense of the American Order Brownson and the Just Society In God's Own Good Time