Our Western Civilisation is not some peculiar, narrow obsession of people who happen to live in a certain geographical part of the world. It is an inheritance, constantly expanding, constantly including new things; something which has given us the knowledge of the human heart, which has enabled us to produce not just wonderful economics and the wonderful ways of living in the world that are ours, but also the great works of art, the religions, the systems of law and government, or the other things which make it actually possible for us to recognise that we live in this world, in so far as possible, successfully.
Roger Scruton