23 September 2023

24 September, The Chesterton Calendar (With a Comment From the Old Curmudgeon)

SEPTEMBER 24th

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would be simply running with the blood of philanthropists.

'Charles Dickens.'

When 'the poor became masters' in 1789, in his beloved Revolution, neither the Priests nor the gentlemen escaped the guillotine.-JW

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