Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? (G. K. Chesterton)

Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

G. K. Chesterton

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