Any amount of
nonsense has been talked about the need of novelty, and in that sense there is
nothing particularly meritorious about being modern. A man who seriously
describes his creed as Modernism might just as well invent a creed called
Mondayism, meaning that he puts special faith in the fancies that occurred to
him on Monday; or a creed called Morningism, meaning that he believed in the
thoughts that occurred to him in the morning but not in the afternoon.
Modernity
is only the moment of time in which we happen to find ourselves, and nobody who
thinks will suppose that it is bound to be superior, either to the time that
comes after it or to the time that went before. But in a relative and rational
sense we may congratulate ourselves on knowing the news of the moment, and
having realized recent facts or discoveries that some people still
ignore.
- G. K. Chesterton
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