Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place by Unknown

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Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2021-10-06T02:44:18+00:00

For when hierarchy is destroyed, not just in false or unjust instances, but in principle, then all the kinds of things, and therefore all things, are by definition displaced. It is the hierarchical principle of the Chain of Being that makes it all-inclusive; Creation is not so bountiful and various as it is because life is copious, but because it is orderly, full of places where an abounding diversity of creatures can be at home…. If all the kinds were equal, all places would be in dispute, to be contended for. The result would be a free-for-all, which in turn could only result either in a restoration of hierarchy or in total annihilation, for the most powerful kind would either destroy all the less powerful, and so eventually destroy itself, or it would respect their places in an order which both keeps them alive and implies their right to live.²⁵

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