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Joe Fornieri and I presented papers in October 2010 at a Natural Law Symposium at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. Another presenter, who was a conservative, suggested that it is better not to argue for positive laws on a natural law basis. He said that this is dangerous because it puts too much power into the hands of liberals. His point, which I disagree with on principle, confirmed something I had been thinking as I prepared my lecture for that day.

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Some years ago I was asked to write up a kind of philosophy of the relation between study and travel. I was reminded of it when reading Phil Hamilton’s post “Taking Students to Gettysburg” 3/30, when he said, “I find the more often I visit Gettysburg, the less I discuss strategies and tactics and the more I relate vignettes about particular officers and soldiers.” As a contribution to that discussion, I would like to share an edited segment of my write-up:

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