God and Our Right
By Timothy J Cullen
" Furthermore, even when a social system is organized on true principles, its proper working has always to meet obstacles rooted in men’s passions and ignorance and sin. These obstacles can be effectually overcome only by the forces of religion."
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Once upon a time it was considered incumbent upon anyone aspiring to be considered as educated to have a reasonably broad and deep knowledge of history. In what once was Christendom, the emphasis was upon the history of the West, as one might expect. The history of non-Western, non-Christian cultures and
1 Cahill, Rev E., S.J., The Framework of a Christian State, M.H. Gil and Son, Ltd, Dublin, 1932, p. xxii.
civilizations was seldom taught beyond the cursory at the secondary level and aside from broad survey courses for nonspecialists not overly emphasized at the post-secondary level. This is no longer true: Western, Christian cultural and civilizational history has been slowly but steadily shunted aside in favor of more recently "discovered" non-Western "histories" aimed at dethroning both God and the West in the name of an imagined latter-day "enlightenment," histories that frequently border on fiction when they don’t cross the frontier outright. Be that as it may, common sense dictates that a broad and deep knowledge of the history of the West and Christendom remains the standard by which a well-educated person should be judged.
The phrase " Dieu et mon droit" (God and my right) is likely familiar to Remnant readers as the motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom outside Scotland and was adopted as such by King Henry V of England (1387-1482), although the phrase itself dates from the time of King Richard I (the "Lionheart", 1157-1199), who first used it when boasting to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV (1056-1105): "‘I am born of a rank which recognises [ sic] no superior but God".
2 Richard later used it as a battle cry during the re-conquest of Normandy during the penultimate year of his reign and his life.
Perhaps less familiar is the title phrase of this essay, an adaptation of the famous motto used as the motto of the Hearts of Oak, "a volunteer militia based in the
2 https://infogalactic.com/info/Dieu_et_mon_ droit#cite_ref-17
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