Chesterton's misguided and ill advised admiration for the Satanic French Revolution requires that I comment. There was no 'pure common sense' in the Revolution. There was Satanism, Illuminism, Freemasonry and countless other forms of depraved evil, but no common sense, pure or impure!
AUGUST 10th
THE FALL OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY
We, the modern English, cannot easily understand the French Revolution, because we cannot easily understand the idea of a bloody battle for pure common sense; we cannot understand common sense in arms and conquering. The French feeling— the feeling at the back of the Revolution— was that the more sensible a man was, the more you must look out for slaughter.
‘Charles Dickens.’
Chesterton, G. K.. The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] (Kindle Locations 44746-44749). Catholic Way Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Which only goes to show man is just...man...no matter how much we may think of him, he errs.
ReplyDeleteSo good to see you posting.