“In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety.”

— G. K. Chesterton , book The Defendant

"Introduction"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation — it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

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