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Ideals must burn low and long and locally. Lincoln was my kind of idealist. He understood the hell in his own idealism.
2
Lincoln thought the winning ideals in 1783 and 1865 were the same, though few on the winning sides would have agreed on the ideals or were even idealists.
3
The moderation I want is not a Hegelian dialectical synthesis. It is the test of ideals through subordination and patience.
4
Eschatology – the ultimate ideal – leads to moderation, so Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith is a tax collector, unrecognized.
5
An ideal eschatology leads not to fanaticism but moderation. “Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.” – Phil. 4:5
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After the cock crew, Peter’s idealism was sublimated into moderation. He became “a new creation.”
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Only a few idealists have the highest moderation, but no one else does.
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Moderation may be an idealist’s highest ideal, subordinating her other ideals to the rule of reason.
