“Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?”

—  G. K. Chesterton, book The Napoleon of Notting Hill

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Context: Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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