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The Uses Of Diversity
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
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This book is a personal essay by G.K. Chester. It provides interesting insights and a deep understanding of his own philosophy and feelings about the issues at the time. It is closely related to British society and literature in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Those who are interested in the style and technique of English personal prose will find this work worth reading and collecting.
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Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Author : Chesterton G K 1874-1936
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-11
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Author : G K Chesterton
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-02-06
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IN contemplating some common object of the modern street, such as an omnibus or a lamp-post, itis sometimes well worth while to stop and think about why such common objects are regarded ascommonplace. It is well worth while to try to grasp what is the significance of them-or rather, thequality in modernity which makes them so often seem not so much significant as insignificant. Ifyou stop the omnibus while you stop to think about it, you will be unpopular. Even if you try tograsp the lamp-post in your effort to grasp its significance, you will almost certainly bemisunderstood. Nevertheless, the problem is a real one, and not without bearing upon the mostpoignant politics and ethics of to-day. It is certainly not the things themselves, the idea and upshotof them, that are remote from poetry or even mysticism. The idea of a crowd of human strangersturned into comrades for a journey is full of the oldest pathos and piety of human life. Thatprofound feeling of mortal fraternity and frailty, which tells us we are indeed all in the same boat, isnot the less true if expressed in the formula that we are all in the same bus. As for the idea of thelamp-post, the idea of the fixed beacon of the branching thoroughfares, the terrestrial star of theterrestrial traveller, it not only could be, but actually is, the subject of countless songs.Nor is it even true that there is something so trivial or ugly about the names of the things as to makethem commonplace in all connexions. The word "lamp" is especially beloved by the moredecorative and poetic writers; it is a symbol, and very frequently a title. It is true that if Ruskin hadcalled his eloquent work "The Seven Lamp-Posts of Architecture" the effect, to a delicate ear, wouldnot have been quite the same. But even the word "post" is in no sense impossible in poetry; it canbe found with a fine military ring in phrases like "The Last Post" or "Dying at his Post." Iremember, indeed, hearing, when a small child, the line in Macaulay's "Armada" about "with looserein and bloody spur rode inland many a post," and being puzzled at the picture of a pillar-box or alamp-post displaying so much activity. But certainly it is not the mere sound of the word that makesit unworkable in the literature of wonder or beauty. "Omnibus" may seem at first sight a moredifficult thing to swallow-if I may be allowed a somewhat gigantesque figure of speech. This, itmay be said, is a Cockney and ungainly modern word, as it is certainly a Cockney and ungainlymodern thing. But even this is not true. The word "omnibus" is a very noble word with a very noblemeaning and even tradition. It is derived from an ancient and adamantine tongue which has rolled itwith very authoritative thunders: quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus. It is a word really morehuman and universal than republic or democracy. A man might very consistently build a temple forall the tribes of men, a temple of the largest pattern and the loveliest design, and then call it anomnibus. It is true that the dignity of this description has really been somewhat diminished by theillogical habit of clipping the word down to the last and least important part of it. But that is onlyone of many modern examples in which real vulgarity is not in democracy, but rather in the loss ofdemocracy. It is about as democratic to call an omnibus a bus as it would be to call a democrat a rat.
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Author : G K Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-11-21
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I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false reli-gions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of everything: he bows down to wood and stone until his limbs are as rooted as the roots of the tree or his head as fallen as the stone sunken by the roadside. It has often been discussed whether animals can laugh. The hyena is said to laugh: but it is rather in the sense in which the M.P. is said to utter "an ironical cheer." At the best, the hyena utters an ironical laugh. Broadly, it is true that all animals except Man are serious. And I think it is further demonstrated by the fact that all human beings who concern themselves in a concentrated way with animals are also serious; serious in a sense far beyond that of human beings concerned with anything else.
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-12-13
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G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Uses of Diversity' is a collection of essays from the "Prince of Paradox". Written by the English writer and philosopher, Chesterton’s essays are full of exciting points, intelligent jokes, and intriguing insights, and beautifully showcase Chesterton’s thoughts and beliefs. Some of the essays featured in the collection include: ‘On Seriousness’, ‘Tennyson’, ‘The Japanese’, ‘Christian Science’, ‘The Evolution of Emma’, ‘Questions of Divorce’, ‘Mormonism’, ‘Dickens Again’, ‘George Wyndham’, and ‘On Monsters’. A superb collection for readers of Chesterton, which covers a wide array of topics on everything from religion and nationalities to poltics and different influential novelists. Known as the ‘Prince of Paradox,’ Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English author, philosopher, and literary critic. An unparalleled essayist, he produced over four thousand essays during his lifetime, alongside eighty novels and two hundred short stories. Himself both a modernist and devout Catholic, he is remembered best for his priest-detective short stories ‘Father Brown’, and his metaphysical thriller ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’. In his lifetime, Chesterton befriended and debated some of the greatest thinkers of the age, such as George Bernard Shore, H. G. Wells, and Bertrand Russell, while his works went on to inspire figures including T. S. Eliot, Michael Collins, and Mahatma Gandhi. According to his autobiography, Chesterton and Shaw also played cowboys in a silent movie that was never released.
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-11
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Author : G K Chesterton
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-04-22
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I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false religions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of everything: he bows down to wood and stone until his limbs are as rooted as the roots of the tree or his head as fallen as the stone sunken by the roadside. It has often been discussed whether animals can laugh. The hyena is said to laugh: but it is rather in the sense in which the M.P. is said to utter "an ironical cheer." At the best, the hyena utters an ironical laugh. Broadly, it is true that all animals except Man are serious. And I think it is further demonstrated by the fact that all human beings who concern themselves in a concentrated way with animals are also serious; serious in a sense far beyond that of human beings concerned with anything else. Horses are serious; they have long, solemn faces. But horsey men are also serious-jockeys or trainers or grooms: they also have long, solemn faces. Dogs are serious: they have exactly that combination of moderate conscientiousness with monstrous conceit which is the make-up of most modern religions. But, however serious dogs may be, they can hardly be more serious than dog-fanciers-or dog-stealers. Dog-stealers, indeed, have to be particularly serious, because they have to come back and say they have found the dog. The faintest shade of irony, not to say levity, on their features, would evidently be fatal to their plans. I will not carry the comparison through all the kingdoms of natural history: but it is true of all who fix their affection or intelligence on the lower animals. Cats are as serious as the Sphinx, who must have been some kind of cat, to judge by the attitude. But the rich old ladies who love cats are quite equally serious, about cats and about themselves. So also the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, also crocodiles and beetles and all kinds of things; but they were all serious and made their worshippers serious. Egyptian art was intentionally harsh, clear, and conventional; but it could very vividly represent men driving, hunting, fighting, feasting, praying. Yet I think you will pass along many corridors of that coloured and almost cruel art before you see a man laughing. Their gods did not encourage them to laugh. I am told by housewives that beetles seldom laugh. Cats do not laugh-except the Cheshire Cat (which is not found in Egypt); and even he can only grin. And crocodiles do not laugh. They weep.
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Author : G. K. Chesterton
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-20
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