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Orthodoxy

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"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1908. Read by David "Grizzly" Smith. "The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel." This is how Chesterton explains "Orthodoxy," the sequel to Heretics. "I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe. I wil ...
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The Defendant

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A collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Defences" of things at best less appreciated than they ought to be. "... It becomes increasingly apparent, therefore, that the world is in a permanent danger of being misjudged. That this is no fanciful or mystical idea may be tested by simple examples. The two absolutely basic words 'good' and 'bad,' descriptive of two primal and inexplicable sensations, are not, and never have been, used properly. Things that are bad are not called good ...
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Chapter 7, "The Eternal Revolution"The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith inour life is required even to improve it; second, that somedissatisfaction with things as they are is necessary even in order to besatisfied; third, that to have this necessary content and necessarydiscontent it is not sufficient to have the obvio…
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Chapter 4, "The Ethics of Elfland"When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it iscommonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, onehas these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but inmiddle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a beliefin practical politics, to using the ma…
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