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Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-10-12
主題	Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN	19781386449781978138643
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0yjxswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge. I do not allege any significance in the relation of the two buildings; and I indignantly deny that the church was chosen because it needed the whole water-power of West London to turn me into a Christian...