Here dies another day
During which I have had eyes, ears, hands
And the great world round me;
And with tomorrow begins another.
Why am I allowed two?
–G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
A Poem to Begin the Day–Evening by G.K. Chesterton
Posted in * Culture-Watch, Poetry & Literature
That is a nice Chesterton quote. One of my favorites:
[blockquote]The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful. For example, Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He has a strange idea that he will make it easier to forgive sins by saying that there are no sins to forgive. Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who ought really to have been eaten by lions.[/blockquote]
from [url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/orthodoxy.vi.html]The Suicide of Thought[/url]
I’m only recently discovering the joy of Chesterton. One quote that struck me as prescient, from [b]Orthodoxy[/b]:
[blockquote]Every day one comes across somebody who says that of course his view may not be the right one. Of course his view must be the right one, or it is not his view. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table…Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but these are too humble to be convinced. The meek do inherit the earth; but the modern sceptics are too meek to even claim their inheritance.[/blockquote]