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O que há de errado com o mundo
A mente moderna vê-se forçada na direção do futuro pela sensação da fadiga - não isenta de terror - com que contempla o passado. Ela é propelida para o futuro. Para usar uma expressão popular, é arremessada para meados da semana que vem. E a espora que a impulsiona avidamente não é uma afeição genuína pela futuridade, pois a futuridade não existe, pois que ainda é futura. É antes um medo do um medo não só do mal que há no passado, senão também do bem que há nele. O cérebro entra em colapso ante a insuportável virtude da humanidade. Houve tantas fés flamejantes que não podemos suportar houve heroísmos tão severos que não somos capazes de imitar empregaram-se esforços tão grandes na construção de edifícios monumentais ou na busca da glória militar que nos parecem a um tempo sublimes e patéticos. O futuro é um refúgio onde nos escondemos da competição feroz de nossos antepassados. São as gerações passadas, não as futuras, que vêm bater à nossa porta.
232 pages, Paperback
Published December 10, 2019
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G.K. Chesterton
4,683 books5,808 followersGilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
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