The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.


"Holding on to Romanticism" in The Illustrated London News (2 May 1931)

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of...

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of...

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of...

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of...