I began the editorial to the latest issue of StAR, which is on the theme of “Faith and Freedom”, with the quote from Edmund Burke that “liberty itself must be limited in order to be possessed”. This epigram prompted Colin Jory, whose excellent satirical poem lampooning scientism also graces the latest issue, to send another gem from Burke’s epigrammatic arsenal, connecting sin to slavery:

 

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”