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LinkWho is this guy and why haven't I heard of him?Dec 20, '07 12:19 AM
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Link: http://chesterton.org/discover/who.html

Website regarding Chesterton's forgotten legacy

csasarge wrote on Dec 20, '07
Well shoot, no I gotta go do some more reading lol. I too have never heard of him, but, I'll be looking for some of is writings now. Thanks BOG.
braveheart926 wrote on Dec 20, '07
i have heard of him though i havent had the pleasure to really study him. i believe he was friends with c.s. lewis and perhaps another unknown- hilaire belloc.
james1960 wrote on Dec 20, '07
I think I've read a few of his Father Brown stories. Can't say I recall reading anything else by him though.
bog55 wrote on Dec 20, '07, edited on Dec 20, '07
He was completely new to me.He was pretty well known during his time period according to the website.Here's a few good quotes:
"[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution." - ILN, 7/19/19
"The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are." - Introduction to The Defendant
"War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you." - ILN, 7/24/15
"All government is an ugly necessity." Ð A Short History of England. 63
"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified." - ILN 9-30-33
james1960 wrote on Dec 20, '07
bog55 said
"The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are." - Introduction to The Defendant
"War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you." - ILN, 7/24/15
"All government is an ugly necessity." Ð A Short History of England. 63
"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified." - ILN 9-30-33
The other was also accurate, I feel these 4 especially are appropriate in todays world.

Good choices!
bog55 wrote on Dec 20, '07
I think I'll keep going back to his website from time to time.He was an interesting man.
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