Heretics

In Heretics, Gilbert K. Chester­ton rails against what he sees as wrong with soci­ety. He points out how soci­ety has gone astray and how life and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty could be brought back into focus. It is fool­ish, gen­er­al­ly speak­ing, for a philoso­pher to set fire to anoth­er philoso­pher in Smith­field Mar­ket because they do not agree in their the­o­ry of the uni­verse. That was done very fre­quent­ly in the last deca­dence of the Mid­dle Ages, and it failed alto­geth­er in its object. But there is one thing that is infi­nite­ly more absurd and unprac­ti­cal than burn­ing a man for his phi­los­o­phy. This is the habit of say­ing that his phi­los­o­phy does not mat­ter, and this is done uni­ver­sal­ly in the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry, in the deca­dence of the great rev­o­lu­tion­ary period

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