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G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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3 December 2007

A Research on G .K . Chesterton and The Man Who Was Thursday : An Introduction

While doing research on G .K . Chesterton and his literary masterpiece , I came upon this article on Gilbert Magazine in which his answer to the question - What is the difference between progress and growth ' - was posted . To this question , he answered

The fatal metaphor of progress , which means leaving things behind us has utterly obscured the real idea of growth , which means leaving

things inside of us

First of all , I didn 't even know he has a magazine . Secondly , since I have never heard of him before , I ask myself why on earth has it taken so long for me to discover such an amazing man ? His statement above is just one of the marvelous pithy quotations of a man who never earned a doctorate and , in fact , never even attended a university . I have read some of them and I am amazed at how he can say something about everything and says it better than everybody else

It is with utter delight that I am taking this journey to the discovery and uncovering of a genius - a journalist , a debater , an artist , a happy man - for in discovering him , I discover passion , wisdom , and myself

G .K . Chesterton : A Poet , Storyteller , and Ironist

G .K . Chesterton cannot be summed up in one sentence . Nor in one paragraph . With all the fine biographies I have encountered that have been written of him , I don 't know if the Gilbert Keith Chesterton has really been captured between the covers of those books . In the first place , how could one simplify a man of such complex talents ? He was very good at expressing himself , but more importantly , he had something very good to express - the reason why he was one of the greatest thinkers and of the 20th century and a champion of the Roman Catholic religion G . K . Chesterton is alive and kicking today - in a way that most of his contemporaries are not - precisely because he enunciated clearly and forcefully the fundamental principles in the light of which issues whether of today or of yesterday , can be confronted intelligently , and he has dedicated this extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society . Literary types would laud him for his poetry and novels and detective stories and plays social critics would approve him for his prescient admonitions about eugenics and nihilism and socialism champions of domestic democracy would like his doctrine of distributism philosophers would be challenged by his insights and quips the fundamentalist Christian would defend him for defending Christianity , and the Catholic Christian would enjoy the enjoyment Chesterton derived from his Catholicism . This is a multifaceted man

Gilbert was a day boy at St . Paul 's . The masters rated him as an under-achiever , but he earned some recognition as a writer and debater Although he...

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