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Showing posts with label G. K. Chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label G. K. Chesterton. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Only the middling sort

“Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence"
G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, October 10, 1908


Paul Strand - Wall Street - 1915 


Livio Vacchini - Palestra Gymanisum - 1995/7


Micahel Levin - New Concrete - 2009


“Extremely happy men and extremely unhappy men are equally disposed to harshness: witness monks and conquerors. Only the middling sort, and the mixture of good fortune with bad, offer gentleness and pity.” 
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Bk VI, Ch IX