Friday, December 3, 2010

Potatoes


Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin--a fact as practical as potatoes.

-From Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

2 comments:

Esmeralda Gatsby said...

:) Gotta love G. K. Chersterton.
Hey, have you ever read Running After One's Hat by him?

Jubilant Wife said...

Tell you what, with how nutritous AND cheap potatoes are, they are VERy practical.