“The Ultimate and Absolute Evil”

G. K. Chesterton’s thoughts on suicide, from his book Orthodoxy, chapter 5: Under the lengthening shadow of Isben, an argument arose whether it was not a very nice thing to murder one’s self. Grave moderns told us that we must not even say “poor fellow,” of a man who had blown his brains out, since he was an enviable person, … Continue reading “The Ultimate and Absolute Evil”