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hangman, but what booted that, when the elite of the class they were supposed to represent was in league with the enemy; when more subversive propaganda than anything that got into print was being disseminated by word of mouth; when the master iconoclasts were lionized and bidden to roar again? The salon was the mother of the guillotine (Good Talk [London: Lovat, Dickson, 1936], p. 223). A society is as good or as bad, as wise or as stupid, as its general conversation. Conversation is the bloom which brings forth the fruit. If it is indecent, silly, wrongheaded, secular, the fruits will be sin, secularism, injustice, and decay. If people may talk about everything except religion, then a creeping secularism will inevitably overtake their whole civilization. If people never rise above gossip, other people whose conversation does rise above it, will eventually take them over. |
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