Orthodoxy: Original Text

By: Chesterton, G. K.

THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shotis dignified when he accepts a duel. When some time ago I published a series of hasty butsincere papers, under the name of "Heretics," several critics for whose intellect I have awarm respect (I may mention specially Mr. G.S.Street) said that it was all very well for meto tell everybody to affirm his cosmic theory, but that I had carefully avoided supportingmy precepts with example. "I will begin to worry about my philosophy," said Mr. Street,"when Mr. Chesterton has given us his." It was perhaps an incautious suggestion to make toa person only too ready to write books upon the feeblest provocation. But after all, thoughMr. Street has inspired and created this book, he need not read it. If he does read it, he willfind that in its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mentalpictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have cometo believe. I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it;and it made me.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HW4F3M5
• ISBN13: 9798685553935
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"