Finished Reading “Heretics”

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  "G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on  "heretics" - those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views - Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds... those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them." (Goodreads)

Moral Letter 12: On Old Age

"Let us cherish and love old age ; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. . . .

. . . let us go to our sleep with joy and gladness ; let us say:

I have lived; the course which Fortune set for me is finished.

And if God is pleased to add another day, we should welcome it with glad hearts."

(Seneca, Moral Letter 12: On Old Age)

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