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Frá The Sign of the Broken Sword, einn af mögrum smásögum  skrifað af G. K. Chesterton um séra Brown.

"Sir Arthur St Clair, as I have already said, was a man who read his own Bible. That was what the matter was with him. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible? A printer reads a Bible for misprints. A Mormon reads his Bible and finds polygamy; a Christian Scientist reads his and finds out that we have no arms and legs. St Clair was an old Anglo-Indian Protestant soldier. Now just think what that might mean; and, for Heavens sake, don't cant about it. It might mean a man physically formidable living under a tropic sun in an Oriental society, and soaking himself without sense or guidance in an Oriental book. Of course, he read the Old Testament rather than the New. Of course, he found in the Old Testament anything that he wanted - lust, tyranny, treason. Oh, I dare say he was honest, as you call it. But what is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?"

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