The Barbarism of Berlin
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes, D501, Germany -- Politics and government, I
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Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes, D501, Germany -- Politics and government, I
Downloads: 563
Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk: it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, and perished arguing about the expense of a fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the thi.
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