Tremendous Trifles (G. Chesterton), 2010

So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform, it was something more important than a reform. It was an iconoclasm, it was the breaking of a stone image. The people saw the building like a giant looking at them with a score of eyes, and they struck at it as at a carved fact. For of all the shapes in which that immense illusion called materialism can terrify the soul, perhaps the most oppressive are big buildings. Man feels like a fly, an accident, in the thing he has himself made. It requires a violent effort of the spirit to remember that man made this confounding thing and man could unmake it. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1909 года (издательство "New York, Dodd, Mead").

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