-Heretics (1905)
Quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Let no man deceive himself; if by vulgarity we mean coarseness of speech,
rowdiness of behaviour, gossip, horseplay, and some heavy drinking,
vulgarity there always was wherever there was joy, wherever there was
faith in the gods. Wherever you have belief you will have hilarity,
wherever you have hilarity you will have some dangers. And as creed
and mythology produce this gross and vigorous life, so in its turn
this gross and vigorous life will always produce creed and mythology.
If we ever get the English back on to the English land they will become
again a religious people, if all goes well, a superstitious people.
The absence from modern life of both the higher and lower forms of faith
is largely due to a divorce from nature and the trees and clouds.
If we have no more turnip ghosts it is chiefly from the lack of turnips.
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