Mystical, Living Tradition
March 7, 2007
Tradition, which some have called a dead thing, is really a thing far more living than the intellect. There is a dark kinship and brotherhood of all mankind which is much too deep to be called heredity or to be in any way explained in scientific formulae.
G. K. Chesterton “Christmas Books” <em>Appreciations</em>
chance of turning back
February 20, 2007
“But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end”
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Customs and Habits
January 24, 2007
“Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.”
G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 1-11-1908
