The Napoleon of Notting Hill

By: Chesterton, G. K.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children'sgames from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for thefew people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called "Keepto-morrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt)"Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clevermen have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait untilall the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else.That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.For human beings, being children, have the childish wilfulness and the childish secrecy.And they never have from the beginning of the world done what the wise men have seen tobe inevitable. They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned trueprophets with a greater and juster enjoyment. Individually, men may present a more or lessrational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J1RJ6J9
• ISBN13: 9798686125711
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"