Oh, the Humble Arrogance!

In his book, Orthodoxy, Chesterton maintains that modern men are much too humble. We might be shocked at this assumption, but Chesterton goes on to explain, “A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays, the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert – himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt – the Divine Reason…the new sceptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn.” When you hear this statement, you immediately think that you should have thought of that.

True to his nature, Chesterton adds a little twist of humor that fits in just perfectly. He says, “We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication tables.”

Let me say no more, and you go buy the book yourself.