Pierre Beaudry cited Dr. DaveWang’s speech in his article, THE
EPISTEMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ‘FILIOQUE published on August 31, 2017.
Please read the paragraphs below:
How do you consider the future?
That was the question that Benjamin Franklin attempted to solve when he opposed
the creation of the Cincinnatus Society whose intention was to tie down the
American descendants of the Revolutionary War heroes with the glories of the
past as the determining factor of the future. This fallacy was insightfully
restated recently by the managing librarian of the Queen’s Library at Laurelton
in Queens, New York City, Dr. Dave Wang, who spoke at a Schiller Conference in
that city about Confucius and Benjamin Franklin. Wang said:
“In 1784, after the Revolution,
some veterans hoped they could hand down their glories, their titles, to their
descendants. They organized the Cincinnatus Society for this purpose. Franklin
was not happy about the idea of handing down your title, your glory, to the
next generation—that’s the inheritance system, or the aristocratic system of
the Europeans, which was just what our Revolution opposed. What’s the meaning
of the Revolution, if we restore the European aristocratic inheritance system?
That’s totally wrong. We should adopt the Chinese merit system, and people with
talents will be selected to serve the public.” (Dr. Dave Wang,
Confucius and Benjamin Franklin, EIR, April 28, 2017, p. 33. See also Dr. Wang’s
blog at http://foundingfathersandchina.blogspot.com/)
The point that Wang was making
was precisely to emphasize the fact that the founding fathers had fought the
War of Independence for the purpose of breaking
with the Zeisian oligarchical system of Europe and replace aristocratic inheritance
with a government where the citizens and public servants would be fundamentally
oriented to the future.
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