“ Aristocracy is not an institution: aristocracy is a sin ”
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908). copy citation
| Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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| Source | Orthodoxy |
| Topic | aristocracy sin |
| Date | 1908 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130-images.html |
Context
“it is saying to the modest man, "Friend, go up higher." Or if there is some slight defect in canvassing, that is in its perfect and rounded piety, it is only because it may possibly neglect to encourage the modesty of the canvasser.
Aristocracy is not an institution: aristocracy is a sin; generally a very venial one. It is merely the drift or slide of men into a sort of natural pomposity and praise of the powerful, which is the most easy and obvious affair in the world.
It is one of the hundred answers to the fugitive perversion of modern "force"”
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