Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Chesterton Arthur Kenneth
Title : Creed of a Fascist Revolutionary
Year : 1935

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1. Perils of Tolerance. The people of Britain are not adepts in the use of anger. That is why our politicians sleep so peacefully at nights, and why no nocturnal terrors hover around the pillows of our Press magnates, or disturb. the beatific slumbers of our money-jugglers. The indignation which melts before newspaper blandishments or is conveniently side-tracked by newspaper lies, is not the kind to draw tumbrils through the street in the glow of a blood-red sunset. It is argued that the defects which make Britons mighty poor revolutionaries represent sterling qualities in the national character for instance, what the Ostrer newspaper calls "the splendid spectacle of Britain's sanity" boils down to this apparent incapacity for anger. ...