*From their study of history, the Founders had learned of the travails of republics before this one – how the republics of old had, in time, been destroyed by convulsions and upheavals, by vice and decadence. And from their study of human nature, they became acutely aware of man’s self-interestedness and his selfishness, designing America’s political institutions to take these into account. They concluded that while such institutional supports were absolutely necessary and could do much to re channel and curb individual selfishness and discourage political convulsions, something more would be needed if the republic was to survive.

As John Adams put it, “Human passion unbridled by morality and religion…would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”Only a people possessing the right dispositions and mores, and a strong but tempered religious beliefs, would be able to keep what the Founders had bequeathed to them in 1776.

*William J. Bennett “Our Sacred Honor” Introduction page 15.


What if our community came to understand

the 'mandate' around us?

Could we 'hold' on to whatever is true, whatever is noble, ..

if anything is excellent?

Could we serve with mutual responsibility towards the welfare of our neighbors ..

That's the intrinsic challenge for

The Butterfly Effect.  

Connpactivity!