The Long Loneliness Imagery

The Long Loneliness Imagery

Tradition

Chesterton explains “Tradition is democracy extended through time. Tradition means giving the vote to that most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. Tradition is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are walking about.” Compliance with tradition is voluntary; hence, it is comparable to absolute democracy. Individuals would not be coerced to uphold tradition when they are disinterested in it.

“Property rights”

Day explains, "What a sense of property rights we had as children! Mine and yours! It begins in us as infants. "This is mine." When we are very young just taking makes it mine. Possession is nine points of the law. As infants squabbling in the nursery were very strong in this possessive sense. In the nursery might made right." Rights towards playing objects commence during infancy. The assertion of property rights is cultivation of individualism which encourages children to develop selfishness that governs their lives and interests.

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