Hilaire Belloc on the recovery of the past

“By the recovery of the Past, stuff and being are added to us; our lives, which, lived in the present only, are a film or surface, take on body – are lifted into one dimension more. The soul is fed. Reverence and knowledge and security and the love of a good land – all these are increased or given by the pursuit of this kind of learning.”

— Hilaire Belloc, “The Old Road” (1904)

Source: Hilaire Belloc – "The Old Road" (1904) | Wrath of Gnon