4 October 1927 Posted on October 4, 2015 by Staff Gutzon Borglum begins his sculpture on Mount Rushmore. Famous Words of Inspiration..."It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other." GK Chesterton — Click here for more from GK Chesterton Related posts: 18 May 1927 31 May 1927 31 May 1927 18 May 1927 19 April 1927 26 June 1927 3 February 1534 4 October 1777 4 October 1853 4 October 1917