G.K. Chesterton: Transcending Cleverness

We are learning to do a great many clever things. … The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Varied Types (1908)

Alan: Some critics argue that The Lord of the Ring Trilogy is an allegory for returning nuclear power to The Crack of Doom. Tolkien denied any such interpretation. But it is a fact that he wrote the trilogy when humankind first became aware it had discovered a power beyond its control.