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Thursday, October 17, 2019

Why we have no great men today

G.K. Chesterton
First, a clarification: I won’t let myself be dragged by political correctness. I’m not going to change the title of this post to “great human beings.” For me, the word “man” (equivalent to the Latin homo) still has a main generic meaning, different from the meaning whose Latin antecedent is vir (male), opposed to woman or female.
The absence of great men is a common place today and affects almost all fields: