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\n…the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally to refuse to worship any of the hydras’ heads.<\/i> – J. R. R. Tolkien, from a 1969 letter to Amy Ronald<\/p>\n

The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide.<\/i> – T.S. Eliot, “Thoughts After Lambeth”<\/p>\n

The only safety is to have a standard of plain, central Christianity (“mere Christianity” as Baxter called it) which puts the controversies of the moment in their proper perspective. Such a standard can be acquired only from the old books. It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.<\/i> – C. S. Lewis, from his introduction to St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation<\/i><\/p>\n

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.<\/i> – G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News<\/i>, 1906<\/p>\n

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.<\/i> – GKC, Orthodoxy<\/i>, 1908<\/p>\n

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.<\/i> – ibid.<\/i><\/p>\n

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.<\/i> – GKC, What’s Wrong With the World<\/i>, 1910<\/p>\n

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.<\/i> – GKC, Commonwealth<\/i>, 1933<\/p>\n

…In the brown bark
\nOf the trees I saw the many faces
\nOf life, forms hungry for birth,
\nMouthing at me. I held my way
\nTo the light, inspecting my shadow
\nBoldly; and in the late morning
\nYou, rising towards me out of the depths
\nOf myself. I took your hand,
\nRemembering you, and together,
\nConfederates of the natural day,
\nWe went forth to meet the Machine.<\/i>
\n– R. S. Thomas, “Once”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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