"When everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society." Albert Jay Nock

If you're like me you've seen more of Ron Paul's speeches than you can count. And no doubt during several of those speeches you too have heard mention of what Dr. Paul calls the "remnant," a group that cannot be counted but is still alive and well. When I first heard him mention the remnant, I didn't know exactly what he meant but my curiosity grew each time I heard him mention it. Through my research I ran across an old libertarian thinker by the name of Albert Jay Nock who wrote in the first half of the 20th century and defined the term in an essay entitled "Isaiah's Job." Both Dr. Paul and Nock discuss the uncountable nature of the remnant. I believe by comparing Nock's definition of the remnant to Dr. Paul's description of our movement that we can understand exactly what Dr. Paul means to tell us by mentioning it in his speeches.