“ The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. ”
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908). copy citation
Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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Source | Orthodoxy |
Topic | evil world |
Date | 1908 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130-images.html |
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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.”
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