The public philosophy is known as natural law,(...). This philosophy is the premise of the institutions of the Western society, and they are, I believe, unworkable in communities that do not adhere to it. Except on the premises of this philosophy, it is impossible to reach intelligible and workable conceptions of popular election, majority rule, representative assemblies, free speech, loyalty, property, corporations and voluntary associations. The founders of these institutions, which the recently enfranchised democracies have inherited, were all of them adherents of natural law. ("The Eclipse of the public Philosophy", '3. The Neglect of the Public Philosophy', pp. 79-80. 下線は引用者による、以下同じ)
European thought has been acted upon by the idea that the rational faculties of men can produce a common conception of law and order which possesses a universal validity. > ("The Eclipse of the public Philosophy", '4. The Universal Laws of the Rational Order', p. 81)
The public philosophy is in a deep contradiction with the Jacobin ideology. ("The Defense of Civility", '2. The Communication of the Public Philosophy', p. 124)
(NY: The New American Library, 1956)