Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quote

Quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton,

"The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past."

By:	Gilbert Keith Chesterton (more quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton or books by/about Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
	(1874-1936) British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
Categories:	Learning, History
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