enfieldRousseau about teaching history, from emile“The spectacle of the world,” said Pythagoras, “is like the Olympic games; some are buying and selling and think only of their gains…Feb 2, 2018Feb 2, 2018
enfieldFrançois de La RochefoucauldM. Sainte Beuve says, that unless we study this first part of Rochefoucauld’s life, we shall never understand his maxims. The bitter…Dec 27, 20171Dec 27, 20171
enfieldThe End of the World (Chapter from the everlasting man) rise of christianity & fall of romeIn so far as they could get these things from the East, they had already got rather too much of them from the East. The Syncretists were as…Oct 29, 2017Oct 29, 2017
enfieldmanalive g.k.cA wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent…Sep 20, 2017Sep 20, 2017
enfieldThe God in the Cave (Chapter from The Everlasting Man) by g.k. chestertonThis sketch of the human story began in a cave; the cave which popular science associates with the cave-man and in which practical…Aug 25, 2017Aug 25, 2017
enfieldg.k. chesterton, introduction to The DefendantIn certain endless uplands, uplands like great flats gone dizzy, slopes that seem to contradict the idea that there is even such a thing as…Aug 10, 2017Aug 10, 2017