Just when you thought it was safe to look at my blog again on Saturdays, you were wrong! Last year I read The Thing by GK Chesterton (Saint? Pilgrimage?). I quoted from it and said,
"The hard thing about quoting Chesterton for me is that I want to quote the whole book! This quote is great, I have used it to defend many many things, be it Altar Rails, Communion on the tongue, Adoration, The Old Rite Mass or the Old Rite Mass!"
So then I did print the whole book here on my blog each Saturday, one chapter a week. I called it GK's Weekly in honor of Chesterton's weekly paper. I was happy to find this quote in GKC's Autobiography, as I had already started printing them on Saturdays;
The next turning-point of my journalistic fate was the purchase of the Daily News by the Pro-Boer Liberals; for it had belonged up to this moment, like practically every Liberal daily paper, to the Liberal Imperialists. A group of Liberals, of whom Mr. George Cadbury was the principal capitalist and the late Mr. R. C. Lehmann the principal practical journalist, appointed as literary editor my friend Mr. Archibald Marshall, who in his turn had the rashness to appoint me as a regular weekly contributor. Here I wrote an article every Saturday for many years; I was described, in the phrase of the time, as having a Saturday pulpit, rather like a Sunday pulpit. Whatever were the merits of the sermon, it is probable that I had a larger congregation than I have ever had before or since. And I occupied it until I gave it up long afterwards, at another political crisis, the story of which I shall have to tell on a later page.
And now to end the book, here is the contents page with links to each chapter;
"The hard thing about quoting Chesterton for me is that I want to quote the whole book! This quote is great, I have used it to defend many many things, be it Altar Rails, Communion on the tongue, Adoration, The Old Rite Mass or the Old Rite Mass!"
So then I did print the whole book here on my blog each Saturday, one chapter a week. I called it GK's Weekly in honor of Chesterton's weekly paper. I was happy to find this quote in GKC's Autobiography, as I had already started printing them on Saturdays;
The next turning-point of my journalistic fate was the purchase of the Daily News by the Pro-Boer Liberals; for it had belonged up to this moment, like practically every Liberal daily paper, to the Liberal Imperialists. A group of Liberals, of whom Mr. George Cadbury was the principal capitalist and the late Mr. R. C. Lehmann the principal practical journalist, appointed as literary editor my friend Mr. Archibald Marshall, who in his turn had the rashness to appoint me as a regular weekly contributor. Here I wrote an article every Saturday for many years; I was described, in the phrase of the time, as having a Saturday pulpit, rather like a Sunday pulpit. Whatever were the merits of the sermon, it is probable that I had a larger congregation than I have ever had before or since. And I occupied it until I gave it up long afterwards, at another political crisis, the story of which I shall have to tell on a later page.
And now to end the book, here is the contents page with links to each chapter;
The Thing, by G.K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE SCEPTIC AS CRITIC
3. Is HUMANISM A RELIGION?
4. THE DRIFT FROM DOMESTICITY
5. LOGIC AND LAWN TENNIS
6. OBSTINATE ORTHODOXY
7. THE USUAL ARTICLE
8. WHY I AM A CATHOLIC
9. WHAT DO THEY THINK?
10. THE MASK OF THE AGNOSTIC
11. THE EARLY BIRD IN HISTORY
12. PROTESTANTISM: A PROBLEM NOVEL
13. A SIMPLE THOUGHT
14. THE CALL TO THE BARBARIANS
15. ON THE NOVEL WITH A PURPOSE
16. THE REVOLT AGAINST IDEAS
17. THE FEASTS AND THE ASCETIC
18. WHO ARE THE CONSPIRATORS?
19. THE HAT AND THE HALO
20. ON TWO ALLEGORIES
21. THE PROTESTANT SUPERSTITIONS
22. ON COURAGE AND INDEPENDENCE
23. THE NORDIC HINDOO
24. SPIRITUALIST LOOKS BACK
25. THE ROOTS OF SANITY
26. SOME OF OUR ERRORS
27. THE SLAVERY OF THE MIND
28. INGE VERSUS BARNES
29. WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
30. THE OPTIMIST AS A SUICIDE
31. THE OUTLINE OF THE FALL
32. THE IDOLS OF SCOTLAND
33. IF THEY HAD BELIEVED
34. PEACE AND THE PAPACY
35. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
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