“ A man cannot expect any adventures in the land of anarchy. ”
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908). copy citation
Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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Source | Orthodoxy |
Topic | adventure anarchy |
Date | 1908 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130-images.html |
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“its despair is within.
And its despair is this, that it does not really believe that there is any meaning in the universe; therefore it cannot hope to find any romance; its romances will have no plots. A man cannot expect any adventures in the land of anarchy. But a man can expect any number of adventures if he goes travelling in the land of authority. One can find no meanings in a jungle of scepticism; but the man will find more and more meanings who walks through a forest of doctrine and design.”
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