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- Author: G K Chesterton
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 102
- ISBN-10: 1514229110
- ISBN-13: 9781514229118
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as they come. Or it can be divided as one cuts wood-along the grain: if one thinks that there is a grain. But the two are never the same: the names never come in the same order in actual time as they come in any serious study of a spirit or a tendency. The critic who wishes to move onward with the life of an epoch, must be always running backwards and forwards among its mere dates; just as a branch bends back and forth continually; yet the grain in the branch runs true like an unbroken river.
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- Author: G K Chesterton
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 102
- ISBN-10: 1514229110
- ISBN-13: 9781514229118
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as they come. Or it can be divided as one cuts wood-along the grain: if one thinks that there is a grain. But the two are never the same: the names never come in the same order in actual time as they come in any serious study of a spirit or a tendency. The critic who wishes to move onward with the life of an epoch, must be always running backwards and forwards among its mere dates; just as a branch bends back and forth continually; yet the grain in the branch runs true like an unbroken river.
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