Sunday, November 05, 2017
Turning Back the Clock
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), What's Wrong with the World (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910), p. 41:
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There is one metaphor of which the moderns are very fond; they are always saying, "You can't put the clock back." The simple and obvious answer is "You can." A clock, being a piece of human construction, can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour. In the same way society, being a piece of human construction, can be reconstructed upon any plan that has ever existed.
