A reader sez

While visiting Acres of Books in Long Beach today, I was happy to find a copy of GK Chesterton's "St. Francis of Assisi" from the series Doran's Modern Readers' Bookshelf, published in 1924. (Acres of Books is a marvelous used bookstore, which you probably guessed but I wanted to make clear.)

On page 33, while introducing a short description of the world that St. Francis was born into, I found this (I quote):

To write history and hate Rome, both pagan and papal, is practically to hate nearly everything that has happened. It comes very near to hating humanity on purely humanitarian grounds. To dislike both the priest and the soldier, both the laurels of the warrior and the lilies of the saint, is to suffer a division from the mass of mankind for which not all the desterities of the finest and most flexible of modern intelligences can compensate.

It seems to me that modern Leftists do indeed 'dislike both the priest and the soldier' and are indeed 'divi[ded] from the mass of mankind' and most especially cannot find a flexible enough intelligence to wrap around the position they find themselves in.