All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton (adapted excerpt)
Anybody reading these words, and anybody who heard them, will certainly feel that there is in them a great c
of geniality. But along with that truth and with that geniality there is a streak of that erroneous type of optim
of which I have spoken above. Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our
ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have tropposite virtue
because we have the opposite fault? It is a good thing assuredly, to be innocent of any excess; but let us be su
excess merely by being guilty of defect. Is it really true that our English political satire is so moderate because
so saintly?
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