VI. THE PARADOXES OF CHRISTIANITY ............. 146

VII. THE ETERNAL REVOLUTION ................... 186

VIII. THE ROMANCE OF ORTHODOXY ................ 228

IX. AUTHORITY AND THE ADVENTURER .............. 259




_ORTHODOXY_





CHAPTER I.--_Introduction in Defence of Everything Else_


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. When
some time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, under
the name of "Heretics," several critics for whose intellect I have a
warm respect (I may mention specially Mr. G.S. Street) said that it was
all very well for me to tell everybody to affirm his cosmic theory, but
that I had carefully avoided supporting my 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