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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

chesterton on human goodness

(an addendum to "on dogs")

No matter what the subject, Chesterton always says it best:

"Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink."

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