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  • True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the passing moment; it is eternal, though we evanescent men experience only a fragment of it. We have no right to imperil the happiness of posterity by impudently tinkering with the heritage of humanity.

    Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.57, Regnery Publishing