GK Chesterton on evil

The opening and closing scenes of The Secret of Father Brown have just come into the public domain, and allowed me to do something I had wanted to do for a long time: Place them together. For the allusions to various cases, you may read the complete book, and if you haven't read it already I will be doing you a favour; but the two scenes, read together, represent one of the most profound and beautiful meditations on evil and human nature I have ever read, and an eternal rebuke to the eternal Pharisee that lurks (among other places) in far too many of our blogs.
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