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Gerald Stanley Lee was an American Congregational clergyman and the author of numerous books and essays. Lee was "a frequent contributor of reviews to the Critic and other periodicals and wrote books on religion, modern culture, and physical fitness."Lee was opposed to U.S. entry into World War I, writing essays and editorials characterizing the war as a clumsy effort of the nations involved to communicate their desires and one that could be settled without any U.S. intervention. This drew a harsh rebuke from G. K. Chesterton, who criticized Lee for imagining that the war then underway could be ended by mere discussion and for treating the warring forces as if they were on equal moral footing.Lee and his wife Jennette and daughter Geraldine summered on Monhegan Island, Maine, for over 30 years. He published a ten-cent magazine, Mount Tom, in Northampton, Massachusetts. A collection of his writings from this period is in the book Thoughts from a Driftwood Desk by P. Kent Royka. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1862 – 3. April 1944
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Famous Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes

“It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter V.
Crowds (1913)

“It is idle to say you are only fining a man a farthing, if he chooses to say it is his lucky farthing. It is waste of breath to call a thing a rag when he calls it a flag. This is the fallacy of those who, like Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee, the able American critic, imagine that a war must be a misunderstanding, which social intercourse and explanation would have set right.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

G. K. Chesterton, "Is the War Just a Misunderstanding" (January 29, 1916), reported in The collected works of G. K. Chesterton: Volume 30 (1988), p. 366.
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“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter XVIII.
Crowds (1913)

“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book V, Part III, Chapter XII.
Crowds (1913)

“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter V.
Crowds (1913)

“There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book V, Part III, Chapter XVI.
Crowds (1913)

Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes

“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter XV.
Crowds (1913)

“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book IV, Chapter X.
Crowds (1913)

“I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter III.
Crowds (1913)

“Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter VIII.
Crowds (1913)

“A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book II, Chapter IX.
Crowds (1913)

“Crowds speak in heroes.”

Gerald Stanley Lee

Book IV, Chapter III.
Crowds (1913)

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