Good communications corrupt good manners
-June 17, 1933, Illustrated London News
[I just happened to come across this quote by chance tonight, and I immediately thought: Chesterton wrote an unconscious prophecy of the Internet! lol.
Just kidding, of course, and certainly I realize that he was alluding to a verse of Scripture (1 Corinthians 15:33), albeit slightly paraphrasing and accommodating it for his own literary purpose. But it seems so fitting to apply that quote to the Internet, especially considering Chesterton himself in context was making reference to what was at his time "the newest and most scientific methods of communication", as he puts it.]
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