The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good.
 G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908). copy citation

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Author G. K. Chesterton
Source Orthodoxy
Topic evil world
Date 1908
Language English
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“Bernard Shaw, I could not express myself more exactly than by saying that he has a heroically large and generous heart; but not a heart in the right place. And this is so of the typical society of our time. The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation) , it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage.” source