“Sir Henry Savile (one of the scholars who prepared the King James Version of the Bible) read the indictment, almost four centuries ago” ‘Vanity,’ he said, ‘is the sin, and affectation is the punishment: the first may be called the root of self-love, the other the fruit. Vanity is never at its full growth till it spreadeth into affectation, and then it is complete.’ Because all affectation is, as Carlyle observed more than once, based on falsehood, it always tends-like falsehood itself-to absurdity.” [Bryan F. Griffin, Panic Among the Philistines (Chicago, Regnery Gateway, 1983), p. 53.]
Have 'Em Delivered
Write to the Editor
Subscribe
0 Comments