The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.


The collected works of G.K. Chesterton (ed. Ignatius Pr, 1987) - ISBN: 9780898701470

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what...

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what...

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what...

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what...