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January 13, 2017

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon

by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate. They were not easily

June 4, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from History, by Bernadotte Perrin (published 1912). (Go back to previous chapter) But the Ancient History of the Greeks never emancipated itself wholly from the influence of the epic poems. The revolt against it

June 6, 2019

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

September 22, 2018

Bryce's "The Holy Roman Empire" (Part 15)

Culture·Literature

“A Tale of the Equator” by Lord Dunsany

February 13, 2021

He who is Sultan so remote to the East that his dominions were deemed fabulous in Babylon, whose name is a by-word for distance today in the streets of Bagdad, whose capital

Culture·Literature

Humor and Pathos: Chesterton on “The Pickwick Papers”

February 11, 2021

Pickwick is in Dickens’s career the mere mass of light before the creation of sun or moon. It is the splendid, shapeless substance of which all his stars were ultimately made.

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The Farmer and the Fox

February 9, 2021

A farmer, whose poultry-yard had suffered severely from the foxes, succeeded at last in catching one in a trap. "Ah, you rascal!" said he, as he saw him struggling, "I'll teach you

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Zombified Heads of State

February 1, 2021

"Biden is...kept alive and healthy in as many ways as modern science has to offer. But the entities speaking through the man are not his voice."

Culture·History·Literature·Religion

“The Stage As It Was Once” by Charles Kingsley

January 28, 2021

Let us think for a while upon what the Stage was once, in a republic of the past—what it may be again, I sometimes dream, in some republic of the future.

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“The Song of the Strange Ascetic” by G.K. Chesterton

January 27, 2021

Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Wine, Water, and Song, by G.K. Chesterton (published 1915). If I had been a Heathen,I’d have praised the purple vine,My slaves should dig the vineyards,And

Children·Culture·Literature

The Story of Theseus

January 18, 2021

"Therefore all the more I will go with them, and slay the accursed beast. Have I not slain all evil-doers and monsters, that I might free this land?"

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The Story of the Argonauts

January 16, 2021

"...for each of us has a Golden Fleece to seek, and a wild sea to sail over ere we reach it, and dragons to fight ere it be ours."

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The Story of Perseus

January 14, 2021

And Perseus looked awhile, and then said: ‘If there is anything so fierce and foul on earth, it were a noble deed to kill it. Where can I find the monster?’

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“Fairy Tales” by G.K. Chesterton

January 9, 2021

"The fairy-tales are at root not only moral in the sense of being innocent, but moral in the sense of being didactic, moral in the sense of being moralising."

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Literature - Page 5

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon

History in Ancient Greece (Part 2): Herodotus

History in Ancient Greece (Part 3): Thucydides

Bryce's "The Holy Roman Empire" (Part 15)

“A Tale of the Equator” by Lord Dunsany

Humor and Pathos: Chesterton on “The Pickwick Papers”

The Farmer and the Fox

Zombified Heads of State

“The Stage As It Was Once” by Charles Kingsley

“The Song of the Strange Ascetic” by G.K. Chesterton

The Story of Theseus

The Story of the Argonauts

The Story of Perseus

“Fairy Tales” by G.K. Chesterton

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