I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for f… - Hilaire Belloc

… and as to what may be in this book, do not feel timid nor hesitate to enter. There are more mountains than molehills …

"There is no more fatal fault in the reading of history, nor any illusion to which the human mind is more prone. To read the remote past in the light of the recent past; to think the process of the one towards the other "inevitable;" to regard the whole matter as a slow inexorable process, independent of the human will, still suits the materialist pantheism of our time."

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.