Quote of the Day — James Wilson
June 10, 2026
The law of nature and the law of revelation are both divine. They flow, though in different channels, from the same adorable source. It is indeed preposterous to separate them from each other. — James Wilson
1742–1798
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1742–1798
James Wilson was born on September 14, 1742, near the town of Carskerdo in the parish of Ceres, Fife, Scotland. The son of a farmer, Wilson received his early education at several Scottish universities, including the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Edinburgh. Scotland in the mid-eighteenth century was experiencing an intellectual golden age, and Wilson absorbed the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers who would profoundly shape his views on law, government, and human nature. In 1765, at the age of twenty-three, he emigrated to the American colonies, arriving in Philadelphia with little…
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James Wilson, a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, framed natural law and divine revelation as flowing from the same source, a theme that ran through the entire broadcast. Kim Monson tied his words to Gregory LaPoint’s warning that Catholic universities have abandoned the natural-law tradition for anti-realist philosophy. Wilson’s defense of an objective moral order anchors the June 10, 2026 broadcast on natural law and property rights.
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