Currently reading and enjoying so far. It is witty and deals with many interesting paradoxes.
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Great book.
"AN ALMOST UNNATURAL vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before."
Orthodoxy, chapter 7, “The Eternal Revolution” (New York: John Lane Company, 1909), 213.
I’m an Orthodox Christian (Church of Greece). Ironically I’ve never heard of this book. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks.
Great book. GK was a brilliant man.
I've had that book for quite awhile, but have had a hard time getting through it. I should retry it. "They" say it's good.
My favorite Catholic author is Frsnk Sheed.
Of course I'm not counting the saints, like Francis de Sales and Alphonsus Liguori.
Chesterton is the Catholic Christopher Hitchens. Great rhetorician.