tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181589320170374720.post9172824225012793301..comments2024-03-27T00:37:16.355-07:00Comments on Orbis Catholicus Secundus: Rome QuotesJohn Paul Sonnenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17248427382830782035noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181589320170374720.post-25703384233654223292013-11-29T01:31:38.286-08:002013-11-29T01:31:38.286-08:00From Wikiquote:
This quotation actually comes fro...From Wikiquote:<br /><br />This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Émile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophet : The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having Father Brown say, in "The Oracle of the Dog" (1923): "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense." Cammaerts then interposes his own analysis between further quotes from Father Brown: "'It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.' The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything: 'And a dog is an omen and a cat is a mystery.'" Note that the remark about believing in anything is outside the quotation marks — it is Cammaerts. Nigel Rees is credited with identifying this as the source of the misattribution, in a 1997 issue of First Things<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com