Thursday, October 9, 2014

"The ambiguity of words"

“AGAIN, in the matter of the ambiguity of words: A man who thinks that, because the Church needed “Reformation” in the early sixteenth century, therefore the disruptive movement also known as “the Reformation” was necessary and good, is less intelligent than a man who does not confuse these totally distinct terms, though they happen to be expressed by the same set of syllables.”

~Hilaire Belloc: from “The Approach to the Skeptic.” (Essays of a Catholic)

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