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NOVELISTS > essayist, novelist, journalist, poet > G K Chesterton
Tradition means giving...
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
Source: Orthodoxy,ch. 4, The Ethics of England (1909).
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936), English essayist, novelist, journalist, poet; He is noted for the detective series with sleuth Father Brown.