The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOver-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonUnfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton