“There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.” IfsNeedsShouldMindChildrenEndsEarthStarsCommonTeachSupportBabyHealthyWorshipBlowClimbsCustomsSentimentsObscureApocalypseClayHealthy Mind Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.” ChildrenSpiritThreeFiguresOrdinarySentimentsAdamEvokeMalthus Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography