25 63 Hardcover The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. 39 £13.93 £13.93. Kindle Edition





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Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Hardcover But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written.

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Paperback ( Audible Audiobooks Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Describing the rush towards less familiar and attractive ideologies, Chesterton wrote: “In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.

A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Clarence Darrow.