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The Barbarism of Berlin
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Title: The Barbarism of Berlin
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Release Date: March 13, 2004 [eBook #11560]
Language: English
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THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN
BY
G.K. CHESTERTON
First Published 1914
Contents
INTRODUCTION: THE FACTS OF THE CASE
I. THE WAR ON THE WORD
II. THE REFUSAL OF RECIPROCITY
III. THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY
IV. THE ESCAPE OF FOLLY
INTRODUCTION.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE.
Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk: it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, and perished arguing about the expense of a fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the thing. The mere facts of the story about