Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our a…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ✨ Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)
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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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ✨ Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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