Beresford wrote an autobiography, and in it, he described an incident that shows why his sailors loved him.
Where else do we see so vividly love set in action, to the point of total self-sacrifice? Jimmy Carter was wise to bring this point to a country sinking into malaise.
A desperate embrace of intellectual violence, the great idea that is used to smack down every one who differs, tries to fill the void of love's absence - at task for which it is utterly incompetent.
At the core of the Bible, where law and teaching come together, the imperative to love one's neighbor finds its place.
A modern Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Yoel Kahn, wrote that scrupulous observance of all the other laws is illogical and probably vain unless it is matched and exceeded by observance of the imperative of wholehearted love.
There is no system of our devise that can overcome the loss of love.
The value we give each other and our world through loving is beyond reckoning, though we get a small glimpse in such figures as a Forbes article from a decade ago, saying that the effect of unpaid housework in the family home is to raise personal income 30 percent.
https://spectator.org/the-horror-at-who-we-have-allowed-ourselves-to-become/
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