Ebook Search - Pdf Search Engine. History of Western Civilization, Knox. This site is a college course in European history from ancient times to the early modern era, offered by Dr. E.L. Skip Knox through Boise State University. The course is entirely virtual and all course materials are online. Browsing is open to the public, but is not in the public domain. Please read the copyright page found in the Visitor Center for details. Visitor Center The place to start if you are curious about this course and just want to browse around a bit. Classroom This is where you will find the actual course. Other classes by Knox The Crusades The Late Middle Ages The Reformation Go to the History Department home page Go to the Boise State University home page. Issues and Articles - Republic v. Democracy. We have grown accustomed to hearing that we are a democracy; such was never the intent. The form of government entrusted to us by our Founders was a republic, not a democracy.1 Our Founders had an opportunity to establish a democracy in America and chose not to.
In fact, the Founders made clear that we were not, and were never to become, a democracy: [D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.2 James Madison Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.3 John AdamsA democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction.
Many Americans today seem to be unable to define the difference between the two, but there is a difference, a big difference. Endnotes 1. WHAT IS FASCISM? - By S.R. Shearer. By: S.R. Shearer August 1, 2008 Over the past number of years I have received a great many letters and emails chiding me for over-emphasizing the danger of fascism insofar as the United States is concerned. Typical of these letters is the following: "Mr. The fact is, however, I'm not the one who is "off the mark;" he is the one.
As a result of these letters, emails and other correspondences, I have felt it necessary to provide a broader definition of fascism than most Americans have been provided with, a definition that should send shivers up and down your spines as you read this material and ponder just how close the United States is to being subsumed in a fascist state. In their book, The Nazi Hydra in America - a book highly recommended by Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, Glen Yeardon and John Hawkins write: "Few other words cause more confusion … than fascism. They continue: Yeardon and Hawkins then add Upton Sinclair's definition of fascism: S.R. Transitioning From Christianity To Fascism - By S.R. Shearer.
Written By: S.R. Shearer August 8, 2008 There has been a spate of books - both Christian and secular - which have appeared recently that attribute Nazism and fascism to the intrusion of eastern mysticism and Hinduism into the West in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an aberration having little or nothing to do with the mainstream of Western Civilization and the Christian tradition.
However, nothing could be further from the truth! The plain fact of the matter is, mythologies that have defined the West for well over a millennium and a half were responsible - mythologies which no doubt were taken to the extreme, but mythologies which nonetheless can clearly be found in the Western Tradition without any recourse to the traditions of the East. NOTE: Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard University writes, "The West is now at an extraordinary peak of power in relation to other civilizations. C. The Grail Quest: the Search for Inner Purity.
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