February 2010
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February 2010Monthly Archive G K Chesterton, “Too Humble to be Convinced”- 1937Posted by Steve Simpson on 16 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Uncategorized | …But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert — himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt — the Divine Reason. |