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'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!-The Old Curmudgeon
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