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Updated: June 14, 2025
Chesterton and I begun to publish articles on the state of affairs at Westminster when the Marconi men very kindly obliged us. But there is a last factor in this progressive advance of the free Press towards success which I think the most important of all. It is the factor of time in the process of human generations.
Chesterton is of opinion that our modern tendency to pessimism results from our inveterate realism. Contrasting modern fictions with the old heroic stories, he says that we take some indecisive clerk for the subject of a story, and call the weak-kneed cad "the hero."
No slave revolt in the history of the world has ever succeeded by its own power. In these days, moreover, the chances of success are even smaller. One machine gun is equal to a mob." Indeed the distrust of democracy is so universal among British Socialists that Belloc, Chesterton and other Liberals accuse them plausibly, but unjustly, of actually representing an aristocratic standpoint.
His precise terms of reproach are, "Mr. G. K. Chesterton is not a humourist: not even a Cockney humourist." But I do resent his saying that I am not a Cockney. That envenomed arrow, I admit, went home. If a French writer said of me, "He is no metaphysician: not even an English metaphysician," I could swallow the insult to my metaphysics, but I should feel angry about the insult to my country.
It was said at the beginning of the last chapter that things had gone on smoothly, or with apparent smoothness, at Folking since the return of the Caldigates from their wedding tour; but there had in truth been a small cloud in the Folking heavens over and beyond that Babington haze which was now vanishing, and the storm at Chesterton as to which hopes were entertained that it would clear itself away.
It must be true, because you are always right. I love you so that nothing can harm you. My love will be a charm. It will hang around your neck and protect you, and keep you, and bring you back to me. When you are in danger my love will save you. For, while it lives, I live. When it dies " Chesterton kissed her quickly. "What happens then," he said, "doesn't matter."
Chesterton is sure that better management is only arrived at by "killing and being killed." He really does urge this method even in civil matters. The result gives us the really military civilisations of Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Paraguay.
"The Society on the Stanislaus," "John Brown of Gettysburg," and "The Pliocene Skull" belong to this period. In the "Condensed Novels" Harte surpassed all parodists. With clever burlesque, there was both appreciation and subtle criticism. As Chesterton says, "Bret Harte's humor was sympathetic and analytical.
HALL CAINE, one of the most popular of contemporary novelists. R.C. CARTON, dramatist, author of "Lord and Lady Algy" and "A White Elephant." CHARLES HADDON CHAMBERS, dramatist, author of "John a Dreams," part author of "The Fatal Card." GILBERT K. CHESTERTON, essayist, novelist, poet; defender of orthodox thought by unorthodox methods.
On a sudden, when he turned away from the street leading to Chesterton as he came out of the College, he resolved that he would at once go back to Robert Bolton. The man was offensive, suspicious and self-willed; but, nevertheless, his good services, if they could be secured, would be all-important. For his wife's sake, as Caldigate said to himself, for his wife's sake he must bear much.
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