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Being able to see through the mist and fog of these modern times is not easy. Fortunately, some men and women have that prophetic gift. G. K. Chesterton was one of those.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton had (1874 - 1936) had style, wit, and an individualistic flair that surfaced on every page of his writing. For instance.....
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
He was also somewhat of a prophet. In discussing the contributions of the famous English playwright George Bernard Shaw, he made the following observations about the times we live in:
You are free in our time to say that God does not exist; you are free to say that He exists and is evil; you are free to say (like poor Renan) that He would like to exist if He could.
You may talk of God as a metaphor or a mystification; you may water Him down with gallons of long words, or boil Him to the rags of metaphysics; and it is not merely that nobody punishes, but nobody protests.
But if you speak of God as a fact, as a thing like a tiger, as a reason for changing one's conduct, then the modern world will stop you if it can. We are long past talking about whether an unbeliever should be punished for being irreverent. It is now thought irreverent to be a believer.
I know it is all very strange. From the height of 800 years ago, or of 800 years hence, our age must look incredibly odd. We call the 12th Century ascetic. We call our own time hedonist and full of praise and pleasure. But in the ascetic age the love of life was evident and enormous, so that it had to be restrained.
In an hedonist age pleasure has always sunk low, so that it has to be encouraged. How high the sea of human happiness rose in the Middle Ages, we now only know by the colossal walls they built to keep it in bounds.
How low human happiness sank in the 20th Century our children will only know by these extraordinary modern books, which tell people that it is a duty to be cheerful and that life is not so bad after all.
Humanity never produces optimists till it has ceased to produce happy men.
George Bernard Shaw By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton had (1874 - 1936) had style, wit, and an individualistic flair that surfaced on every page of his writing. For instance.....
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
He was also somewhat of a prophet. In discussing the contributions of the famous English playwright George Bernard Shaw, he made the following observations about the times we live in:
You are free in our time to say that God does not exist; you are free to say that He exists and is evil; you are free to say (like poor Renan) that He would like to exist if He could.
You may talk of God as a metaphor or a mystification; you may water Him down with gallons of long words, or boil Him to the rags of metaphysics; and it is not merely that nobody punishes, but nobody protests.
But if you speak of God as a fact, as a thing like a tiger, as a reason for changing one's conduct, then the modern world will stop you if it can. We are long past talking about whether an unbeliever should be punished for being irreverent. It is now thought irreverent to be a believer.
I know it is all very strange. From the height of 800 years ago, or of 800 years hence, our age must look incredibly odd. We call the 12th Century ascetic. We call our own time hedonist and full of praise and pleasure. But in the ascetic age the love of life was evident and enormous, so that it had to be restrained.
In an hedonist age pleasure has always sunk low, so that it has to be encouraged. How high the sea of human happiness rose in the Middle Ages, we now only know by the colossal walls they built to keep it in bounds.
How low human happiness sank in the 20th Century our children will only know by these extraordinary modern books, which tell people that it is a duty to be cheerful and that life is not so bad after all.
Humanity never produces optimists till it has ceased to produce happy men.
George Bernard Shaw By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
