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The Appetite of Tyranny
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Title: The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Release Date: March 17, 2004 [EBook #11605]
Language: English
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THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY
Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian By G.K. CHESTERTON
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
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
LETTERS TO AN OLD GARIBALDIAN
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 the 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 stor