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Heretics

Heretics
G. K. Chesterton

Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G. K. Chesterton in 1905.

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“It is amusing to think how much conservative ingenuity has been wasted in the defence of the House of Lords by men who were desperately endeavouring to prove that the House of Lords consisted of clever men. There is one really good defence of the House of Lords […] and that is, that the House of Lords, in its full and proper strength, consists of stupid men. It really would be a plausible defence of that otherwise indefensible body to point out that the clever men in the Commons, who owed their power to cleverness, ought in the last resort to be checked by the average man in the Lords, who owed their power to accident.”

G. K. Chesterton book Heretics

Heretics (1905)

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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

G. K. Chesterton book Heretics

Heretics (1905)

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