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Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Originally…
“And now, here is a message from the Lord to Jacob, his creature, to the Israel he fashioned: Do not be afraid, I have bought thee for myself, and given thee the name thou bearest: thou belongest to me. Pass…
Why not turn to Seinfeld for moral instruction? FIRST LESSON: OBEDIENCE SECOND LESSON: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL THIRD LESSON: VISIT THE SICK FOURTH LESSON: THOU SHALT HAVE NO STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME LESSON FIVE: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY Reflection…
“Next, the devil took him into the holy city, and there set him down on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down to earth; for it is written, He…