On his first impression of Jerusalem, December 1919, and on walls and suburbs and citizenship. “Happy is the city that has a wall; and happier still if it is a precipice.” — G.K. Chestertonpic.twitter.com/wPW3p0WtQ5
Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.
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On his first impression of Jerusalem, December 1919, and on walls and suburbs and citizenship. “Happy is the city that has a wall; and happier still if it is a precipice.” — G.K. Chestertonpic.twitter.com/wPW3p0WtQ5
“For a creed is like a ladder, while an evolution is only like a slope. A spiritual and social evolution is generally a pretty slippery slope; a miry slope where it is very easy to slide down again.” — The New Jerusalem G.K. Chesterton, 1920pic.twitter.com/TbskMggCGX
“...a man must decide which way he will leave the city; he cannot merely drift out of the city as he drifts out of the modern cities through a litter of slums.” — The New Jerusalem, G.K. Chestertonpic.twitter.com/MfZLBLsuYz
I hardly expected to find so many excellent points on urbanism when I started a closer reading of G.K. Chesterton's New Jerusalem (1920). Here he is, poetically of course, but obviously correctly, on the naming of roads, and on gates.pic.twitter.com/TRApTABYiP
The massive hole in the Jerusalem walls next to the Jaffa gate which the craven Turks tore open for Kaiser Wilhelm's parade in 1898 and the current rulers have found too convenient to rectify. Wastrels and useless scum, all of them. Fix it!pic.twitter.com/kpWOkGwT7N
“The Christians made the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Moslems made the Mosque of Omar; but this is what the most scientific culture made at the end of the great century of science. It made an enormous hole.” — The New Jerusalem, G.K. Chestertonpic.twitter.com/eNYMMMcKbL
As Chesterton readies himself to enter Jerusalem on that December day in 1919 the most extraordinary thing happens: it begins to snow. Imagine what that would make to a man of his sensitivity and imagination!pic.twitter.com/13rtB4aAsl
The New Jerusalem. G.K. Chesterton muses on tourism, tourists, and the Sphinx.pic.twitter.com/Danhdddahk
“I never could understand why such critics who agree that the kingdom of heaven is for children, should forbid it to be the only sort of kingdom that children would really like; a kingdom with real crowns of gold or even of tinsel.” — The New Jerusalem, G.K. Chesterton, 1920
“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.” — The New Jerusalem, G.K. Chesterton, 1920pic.twitter.com/h7PG6SxoSH
>They disfigure their towns in order to decorate their houses Even that's a step up from those that disfigure their towns and don't even build beautiful houses or support beautiful art
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