What G. K. Chesterton thinks about Europe

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English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.

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   Our readingImperialism is an attempt to dominate a sham Europe instead of sharing the real one

   Their wordsIt is the attempt of a European country to create a kind of sham Europe which it can dominate, instead of the real Europe, which it can only share. It is a love of living with one’s inferiors.

   ↗What's Wrong with the World (1910)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book