"He is not of our time, but of all times," wrote A.G. Gardiner, editor of the London Daily News. More than 100 years after Chesterton first started writing for the Daily News, readers continue to find his words fresh and timely, in some ways written more for our day than his own. Consider:
"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."
"Defending any of the cardinal virtues now has all the exhilaration of a vice."
"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
Such writing doesn't need a lot of explanation. But Chesterton also wrote about many events in his lifetime with which modern readers may not be familiar.
Unlike many journalists, ...
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