Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
G.K. ChestertonAll science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
G.K. ChestertonA citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
G.K. ChestertonAnyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
G.K. ChestertonModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
G.K. ChestertonBigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
G.K. ChestertonThe modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
G.K. ChestertonWe are learning to do a great many clever things…The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
G.K. ChestertonA modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
G.K. ChestertonBut this larger and more adventurous Christian universe has one final mark difficult to express; yet as a conclusion of the whole matter I will attempt to express
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