Gilbert Keith Chesterton,
What's Wrong with the World — Chapter 4 part 9
(1910)
“ I do not wish to make Parliament stop working, but rather to make it work; not to shut up churches, but rather to open them; not to put out the lamp of learning or destroy the hedge of property, but only to make some rude effort to make universities fairly universal and property decently proper. ”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton,
What's Wrong with the World — Chapter 4 part 9
(1910)
“ Most educators of the poor seem to think that they have to teach the poor man not to drink. I should be quite content if they teach him to drink; for it is mere ignorance about how to drink and when to drink that is accountable for most of his tragedies. I do not propose (like some of my revolutionary friends) that we should abolish the public schools. ”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton,
What's Wrong with the World — Chapter 4 part 9
(1910)
“ Out of all this throng of theories it must somehow select a theory; out of all these thundering voices it must manage to hear a voice; out of all this awful and aching battle of blinding lights, without one shadow to give shape to them, it must manage somehow to trace and to track a star. ”
