Luke Mohan’s Reviews > The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 02: St. Francis of Assisi; The Everlasting Man; St. Thomas Aquinas > Status Update

Materialist history is the most madly, incredible of all histories, or even of all romances. Whatever starts wars, the thing that sustains wars is something in the soul; that is something akin to religion. It is what men feel about life and death.

…we might almost say men are born mad. They scarcely reach sanity till they reach sanctity.

The rivers of mythology and philosophy run parallel, and do not mingle till they meet in the sea of Christendom.

The substance of all such paganism may be summarize thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination alone…

…he who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

It is really the collapse of comparative religion that there is no comparison between God and the gods.

The God who could not have a statue remained a spirit.

Now that God became man, our making statues does not impede God’s ability to ro remain a spirit.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

All of pgs. 212-213 are masterful; revisit.

…the primary problem of liberty and civilization. It is the fact that men actually lose variety by complexity.

It is not necessarily an indefensible thing that the state grew more despotic as it grew more civilized; it is arguable that it had to grow more despotic in order to grow more civilized.