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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,"...
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Orthodoxy Chapter 9
Chapter 9, "Authority and the Adventurer"
The last chapter has been concerned with the contention that orthodoxy
is not only (as is...
Orthodoxy Chapter 8
Chapter 8, "The Romance of Orthodoxy"
It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our
epoch. But in truth the ch...
Orthodoxy Chapter 7
Chapter 7, "The Eternal Revolution"
The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith in
our life is required even...
Orthodoxy Chapter 6
Chapter 6, "The Paradoxes of Christianity"
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an
unreasonable world, nor ev...
Orthodoxy Chapter 5
Chapter 5, "The Flag of the World"
When I was a boy there were two curious men running about who were
called the optimist and the p...
Orthodoxy Chapter 4
Chapter 4, "The Ethics of Elfland"
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is
commonly in some such speech...
Orthodoxy Chapter 3
Chapter 3, "The Suicide of Thought"
The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figure
of speech can often ge...
Orthodoxy Chapter 2
Chapter 2, "The Maniac"
Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely
altogether on a few cynical maxims whi...
Orthodoxy Chapter 1
Chapter 1, "Introduction in Defense of Everything Else"
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a
challen...