civilized ku # 609 ~ barbarous ancestors and their contemporary spawn

The mind of man ~ Jefferson Memorial - Washington, DC • click to embiggenThe trip to the South Jersey shore also included a day trip to Washington, DC wherein I introduced Hugo to some of the nation's history.

A history that the teabaggers and their strict-constitutionalist conservative brethren seem to not know or ignore. To wit ...

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.