Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Name: The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce (3)
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

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“The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce (3)”, published in 1920, is a work by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It explores elements such as Balzac, morality and peasant.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ Balzac certainly is a genius of the type of that artist he himself describes, who could draw a broomstick so that one knew it had swept the room after a murder. The furniture of Balzac is more alive than the figures of many dramas. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ Anyhow, it is found in practice that the domestic citizen can stand a siege, even by the State; because he has those who will stand by him through thick and thin--especially thin. Now those who hold that the State can be made fit to own all and administer all, can consistently disregard this argument; but it may be said with all respect that the world is more and more disregarding them. If we could find a perfect machine, and a perfect man to work it, it might be a good argument for State Socialism, though an equally good argument for personal despotism. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ But most of us, I fancy, are now agreed that something of that social pressure from below which we call freedom is vital to the health of the State; and this it is which cannot be fully exercised by individuals, but only by groups and traditions. Such groups have been many; there have been monasteries; there may be guilds; but there is only one type among them which all human beings have a spontaneous and omnipresent inspiration to build for themselves; and this type is the family. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ The free peasant has arms if he has not armorial bearings. He has not an escutcheon; but he has a shield. Nor do I see why, in a freer and happier society than the present, or even the past, it should not be a blazoned shield. For that is true of pedigree which is true of property; the wrong is not in its being imposed on men, but rather in its being denied to them. Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists; and so aristocracy sins not in planting a family tree, but in not planting a family forest. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted. The Catholic type of Christian ethics runs through Balzac's books, exactly as the Puritan type of Christian ethics runs through Bunyan's books. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ It is simply that in such a society the government, in dealing with the family, deals with something almost as permanent and self-renewing as itself. There can be a continuous family policy, like a continuous foreign policy. In peasant countries the family fights, it may almost be said that the farm fights. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ Those who are blamed for the bigotry or bourgeois smugness of their marriage conventions are actually those blamed for the restlessness and violence of their political reforms. Nor is there seriously any difficulty in discovering the cause of this. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce — The Superstition of Divorce… (1920)

“ There can be no doubt about it for any one who can apply as a test the truth I have mentioned; that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain. But here and there Balzac does explain ”

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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