Here's the Chesterton quote I mentioned a couple of weeks ago:
...the girls are always doing something, pleasant or unpleasant. In fact, when they have not to do something unpleasant, they deliberately do something else. A great part, perhaps the more godlike part, of a boy's life, is passed in doing nothing at all. Real selfishness, which is the simplest thing in the world to a boy or man, is practically left out of the calculation. The girls may conceivably oppress and torture each other; but they will not indulge or even enjoy themselves -- not, at least, as men understand indulgence or enjoyment.
From Chesterton's review of Louisa Alcott's novel Little Women in his A Handful of Authors, pp. 163-167; included in Fr. Alvaro de Silva's Chesterton anthology Brave New Family.
Posted by billw at July 8, 2003 11:18 PMMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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