" When everything about a people become temporarily weak and ineffective, you start talking about efficiency . Similarly, when the body of a man is a wreck, he starts for the first time to talk about health. Bodies do not talk about their vital processes, but their aspirations . There can be no better test for physical fitness of a man of his talk cheerfully of a journey to the end of the world. And there can be no better proof of the efficiency of his practice of a nation constantly talk of a trip at the end of the world, a trip to the Day of Judgement and the New Jerusalem. There can be no clearer sign of a vigorous physical health of the tendency to follow the noble ideals and crazy it is in the first exuberance of infancy that we want the moon. No brave brave man lived in an age would understand the meaning of "ambition efficiency. " (...) Today, our business is permanently upended by strong men and taciturn. And this repudiation of big words and big visions generated not only a race of small men in politics but also a race of small men in the arts . (Chesterton, Heretics, Ed Lindau, pp. 11-12 the emphasis is mine).
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