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G. K. Chesterton
Overview
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.
Chesterton has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, Time magazine observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges, who compared Chesterton's work with that of Edgar Allan Poe.
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But in some things they are men of the world. The resources of intrigue are called in to supply the defects of argument and wit. To this system of literary monopoly was joined an unremitting industry to blacken and discredit in every way, and by every means, all those who did not hold to their faction. To those who have observed the spirit of their conduct, it has long been clear that nothing was wanted but the…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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That is to say, as a thinker who regards morality as questionable, as worthy of interrogation, in short, as a problem? Is moralizing not-immoral?) In the end, they all want English morality to be recognized as authoritative, inasmuch as mankind, or the "general utility," or "the happiness of the greatest number,"--no! the happiness of ENGLAND, will be best served thereby.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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But these, though distinct classes, are not, in our sense of the term, distinct Kinds of men. A Christian, for example, differs from other human beings; but he differs only in the attribute which the word expresses, namely, belief in Christianity, and whatever else that implies, either as involved in the fact itself, or connected with it through some law of cause and effect. We should never think of inquiring what…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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- Thomas More
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- The Philosopher
- Ionel Gherea
- John of Paris
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- Edmund Burke
- Manchester University Press
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- Antisemitism
- Étienne Gilson
- Matthew Arnold
- Anglicanism
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- Thomas Carlyle
- Traditionalist conservatism
- Imperialism
- Jorge Luis Borges
- John Milton
- Laissez-faire
- Fabian Society
- BBC
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Marshall McLuhan
- Mercury (planet)
- Martin Gardner
- Victorian literature
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- Poetry
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