Saturday, October 29, 2022
Civilization
G.K. Chesteron, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904), p. 42:
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"Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?"
