G. K. Chesterton Quote

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have heard the news.


On William Makepeace Thackeray Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 65) - The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)


He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have...

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have...

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have...

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have...