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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: