Tossing out Darwin, Marx, and Freud

As noted in a previous post, Chesterton said our real task today is uneducating the educated.  We could make a good start of it, in G.K.’s estimation, by tossing out Darwin, Marx, and Freud.  Their problem was not that they had no truth, but that they turned a sliver of truth into the whole of it.

Each of them took not so much a half-truth as a hundredth part of a truth, and then offered it not merely as something, but as everything.  Having never done anything except split hairs, [each of them] hangs the whole world on a single hair.

G.K. Chesterton, “The Game of Psychoanalysis,” Century Magazine, May 1923, quoted in Dale Ahlquist, Common Sense 101, p. 110.

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