Tremendous Trifles
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"Nation, " "citizen, " "religion, " "philosophy, " "authority, " "theRepublic, " words like these are nearly the same in all the countries inwhich we travel. Restrain, therefore, your exuberant admiration for theyoung man who can argue with six French atheists when he first lands atDieppe. Even I can do that. But very likely the same young man does notknow the French for a shoe-horn. But to this generalisation thereare three great exceptions. (1) In the case of countries that are notEuropean at... all, and have never had our civic conceptions, or the oldLatin scholarship. I do not pretend that the Patagonian phrase for"citizenship" at once leaps to the mind, or that a Dyak's word for "theRepublic" has been familiar to me from the nursery. (2) In the case ofGermany, where, although the principle does apply to many words suchas "nation" and "philosophy, " it does not apply so generally, becauseGermany has had a special and deliberate policy of encouraging thepurely German part of its language.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
"Nation, " "citizen, " "religion, " "philosophy, " "authority, " "theRepublic, " words like these are nearly the same in all the countries inwhich we travel. Restrain, therefore, your exuberant admiration for theyoung man who can argue with six French atheists when he first lands atDieppe. Even I can do that. But very likely the same young man does notknow the French for a shoe-horn. But to this generalisation thereare three great exceptions. (1) In the case of countries that are notEuropean at... all, and have never had our civic conceptions, or the oldLatin scholarship. I do not pretend that the Patagonian phrase for"citizenship" at once leaps to the mind, or that a Dyak's word for "theRepublic" has been familiar to me from the nursery. (2) In the case ofGermany, where, although the principle does apply to many words suchas "nation" and "philosophy, " it does not apply so generally, becauseGermany has had a special and deliberate policy of encouraging thepurely German part of its language.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 to read onlineMoreLess
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