Chapter 14 The Empire Builder

On Something

by Hilaire BELLOC (1870 - 1953)

“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that went with a passed time, or we discover after the long night a shaft of light upon the tops of the hills at morning: there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” - Hilaire Belloc

Listen next episodes of On Something:
Chapter 15 Caedwalla , Chapter 16 A Unit of England , Chapter 17 The Relic , Chapter 18 The Ironmonger , Chapter 19 A Force in Gaul , Chapter 20 On Bridges , Chapter 21 A Blue Book , Chapter 22 Perigeux of the Perigord , Chapter 23 The Position , Chapter 24 Home , Chapter 25 The Way to Fairyland , Chapter 26 The Portrait of a Child , Chapter 27 On Experience , Chapter 28 On Immortality , Chapter 29 On Sacremental Things , Chapter 30 In Patria