G. K. Chesterton quote about men from What's Wrong with the World - Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
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Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
 G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910). copy citation

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“When each had, for a long enough period, followed the gleam of his own nose (like the Dong) they would appear again; the Christian a Polytheist, and the Moslem a Panegoist, both quite mad, and far more unfit to understand each other than before.
It is exactly the same with politics. Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them. Men will walk along the edge of a chasm in clear weather, but they will edge miles away from it in a fog. So a Tory can walk up to the very edge of Socialism, if he knows what is Socialism. But if he is told that Socialism is a spirit, a sublime atmosphere, a noble, indefinable tendency, why, then he keeps out of its way; and quite right too.” source

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