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The ordinary despot, in his attitude to the common people suffering from the oppressions of their lords, is best portrayed in the fable if it be a fable of Marie Antoinette and her flippancy about eating cake. I fancy, however, Mr. Chesterton's defence of despots is not the result of any real taste for them or acquaintance with their history: it is due simply to his passion for extremes.
Did you? What happened?" "I went there yesterday afternoon. I took about half-a-dozen photographs of various chaps, including Rand-Brown." "But wait a bit. If Chesterton's two miles off, Rand-Brown couldn't have sent the letters. He wouldn't have the time after school. He was on the grounds both the afternoons before I got the letters." "I know," said Milton; "I didn't think of that at the time."
He himself contends in the last chapter of the book that the crisis in English history came "with the fall of Richard II, following on his failures to use mediaeval despotism in the interests of mediaeval democracy." Mr. Chesterton's history would hardly be worth reading, if he had made nothing more of it than is suggested in that sentence.
Henderson's George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, 2 vols. Chesterton's George Bernard Shaw. Krans's William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival. Howe's J.M. Synge: A Critical Study. Bickley's J.M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement. Essays. For other twentieth-century essays, see the preceding bibliography and the paragraph following this. The Novel. Poetry. The Drama.
Probably, neither of the authors would object to being labelled a mediaevalist, except in so far as we all object to having labels affixed to us by other people. Mr. Chesterton's attitude on the matter, indeed, is clear from that sentence in What's Wrong with the World, in which he affirms: "Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages.
It is not so different from Mr. Chesterton's four men at the pea green lamp post. Since man is an animal it would be strange if there were not. But as rational beings it is worse than shallow to generalize at all about comparative behavior until there is a measurable similarity between the environments to which behavior is a response.
G.K. Chesterton's, that many plays nowadays turn on problems of marriage: which subject is one for slow years of adjustment, patience, adaptation, endeavor; while the drama requires quick decisions, bouleversements, etc., and would do wisely to confine itself to fields in which such bouleversements can be made credible.
Chesterton's vision, coloured though it is with the colours of the past, projects itself generously into the future. He is foretelling the eve of the Utopia of the poor and the oppressed when he speaks of
But it is the condition of England merely because the English, as a whole, have ceased to believe in Mr. Chesterton's principles; it is not yet the condition of Venezuela because the Venezuelans have not yet ceased to believe those principles, though even they are beginning to. Mr. Chesterton says: "Men do judge, and always will judge, by the ultimate test of how they fight."
In other words, the supreme certainty brought home to us by the researches of modern science is that all creation is thrilled through by an all-encompassing Purpose. We really ask for no more than such an admission; that, in short, is our case. We can clinch the whole argument with one quiet sentence of Mr. Chesterton's: "Where there is a purpose, there is a person." If Mr.
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