“ For an aristocracy is always progressive; it is a form of going the pace. ”
G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910). copy citation
| Author | G. K. Chesterton |
|---|---|
| Source | What's Wrong with the World |
| Topic | aristocracy |
| Date | 1910 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm |
Context
“So the prosperous politicians of our own generation introduce bills to prevent poor mothers from going about with their own babies; or they calmly forbid their tenants to drink beer in public inns. But this insolence is not (as you would suppose) howled at by everybody as outrageous feudalism. It is gently rebuked as Socialism. For an aristocracy is always progressive; it is a form of going the pace. Their parties grow later and later at night; for they are trying to live to-morrow.
XI. THE HOMELESSNESS OF JONES
Thus the Future of which we spoke at the beginning has (in England at least) always been the ally of tyranny.”
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