Natural affection, a stronger angel and a fiercer ...
There’s something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite...
Perfect love casts out fear, but so do several oth...
Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things — ignorance, alcohol, passion,...
Don’t waste time bothering whether you ̶...
The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your...
He made bad and good rulers very much alike.
Otto Scott on Machiavelli, who was in many ways the father of modern politics: Machiavelli rationalized despotism, but...
The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with yo...
The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with you. He will inform you of your ignorance; he will not enlighten...
They cannot convince the mind, but they do cloud i...
Just as it is the latest fad [of Freudian psychoanalysis] to prove that everything is sexual, so it was the last fad...
Know-it-all agnostics
Speaking of Darwin, Marx, and Freud, G.K. Chesterton quipped: It is yet another mark of this sort of agnostic that he...
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...
Uneducating the educated
[Our primary public duty] is not to educate the uneducated but to uneducate the educated. G.K. Chesterton, The...
Unenthusiastic educators
It is rare to come across anyone enthusiastic for our system of elementary instruction. It is not common to find...
