“ Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. ”
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922). copy citation
| Author | G. K. Chesterton |
|---|---|
| Source | The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| Topic | intelligence authority |
| Date | 1922 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1720/1720-h/1720-h.htm |
Context
“Of course some people would have the sense to remember having seen St. George in old Italian pictures and French romances, but a good many wouldn’t think about it at all. They would just swallow the skepticism because it was skepticism. Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. That’s exactly what has happened here.
“When some critic or other chose to say that Prior’s Park was not a priory, but was named after some quite modern man named Prior, nobody really tested the theory at all.”
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