 where we look at our nation not as some chaotic, accidental expression of the popular will or even worse, some kind of chaos, meaningless movement in time that is going nowhere in particular, but instead we need to look at our nation, he tells us, as being involved in the purposes of God, and we must learn to rule ourselves to create a public space where God can fill it, not abortion, not perversity, not violence, not socialism, but God himself. And thus Virgil is permanently useful to bring us back to the real relationship not only between persons, but nations and their God.