ACS BOOKS is proud to present a new edition of this book in celebration of the 100th anniversary of its original publication in 1926, featuring notes and introduction by Joe Grabowski, a foreword by Dale Ahlquist, afterword by Joseph Pearce, and chapter-by-chapter questions for study or group discussion.
The twin evils of Big Government and Big Business are dubbed Hudge and Gudge by Chesterton in his 1910 book What’s Wrong with the World. In that book, Chesterton explains the problem; in this book, he explains the solution. — From the Foreword by Dale Ahlquist
“GILBERT CHESTERTON towered shoulder high above his contemporaries. His massive body, crowned with a massive head, struck me as being only the well-proportioned outward visible sign of the massive intellectual spiritual reality within. And this inward reality was in the sphere of memory, mind and heart. His memory was not just beyond the average, but far beyond the average. … Gilbert Chesterton’s memory was a storehouse of such ordered facts that from it, almost at will and always at need, he could bring forth things old and new. In control of this vast, densely filled memory, was a mind of more than average power. It was not just a power of reason—though few could reason better—it was an unusual power of instant intuition; which, the philosophers say, is to be found only in a few men; and. as the theologians say. is found in all the angels. One of his books he called “The Outline of Sanity.” The title was the man. His was the sane, healthy mind that recognises in the outline the first necessary line of thought received or thought expressed. His thought about things was always the deep philosophical recognition not of semblance but of differences. Unconsciously he acted on the principle that “a philosopher is one who knows how to divide.” His rapidly moving intelligence recognised in one principle a hundred conclusions; and in one phenomenon of nature or one fact of history recognised a hundred principles.” — FATHER VINCENT MCNABB, O.P.
