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Age: 42

Occupation: theologian, writer, poet, philosopher, journalist

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

United Kingdom

10.01.18

Marxism will in a generation or so go into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile, it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The tyranny of bad journalism

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

United Kingdom

21.10.17

By the Roman theory the barbarian bondmen were meant to be useful. The saint's mysticism was moved at finding them ornamental; and "Non Angli sed Angeli" meant more nearly "Not slaves, but souls." See more

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

United Kingdom

19.10.17

It need not be repeated that the case for despotism is democratic. As a rule its cruelty to the strong is kindness to the weak.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

United Kingdom

18.10.17

The answer is that I know just enough to know one thing: that a history from the standpoint of a member of the public has not been written. What we call the popular histories should rather be called the anti-popular histories. They are all, nearly without exception, written against the people; and in them the populace is either ignored or elaborately proved to have been wrong.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

London, United Kingdom

16.10.17

The one thing that the English have never understood about Napoleon, in all their myriad studies of his mysterious personality, is how impersonal he was. See more

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton with Nikolay Gumilyov

London, United Kingdom

23.06.17

It was at the house of Lady Juliet Duff; and among the guests was Major Maurice Baring, who had brought with him a Russian in uniform. He talked French in a flowing monologue that suavely swept us all before it; and the things he said had a certain quality characteristic of his nation; a quality which many have tried to define, but which may best be simplified by saying that his nation appears to possess every human talent except common sense. See more

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Nikolay Gumilyov Anna Akhmatova

London, United Kingdom

21.06.17

I’m living very well, every day I meet with someone interesting, laugh, write poetry and make new interesting literary connections.

Today I will be spending the evening at the house of one Yeats, an English Vyacheslav. I have also been promised a meeting with Chesterton, who, it turns out, is just over 40 but has written around 20 books. He is either greatly loved or utterly despised, but acknowledged by all.

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Age: 42

Occupation: theologian, writer, poet, philosopher, journalist

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