{"id":38898,"date":"2018-12-03T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38898"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:00:29","slug":"lecture-100-the-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-100-the-romantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 100: The Romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Illustrated London News<\/i>\u00a01929-31<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Volume 35 of the\u00a0<i>Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>As we grow older, we may or may not grow wiser, but we often grow more cynical. G.K.\u00a0Chesterton was wise early on, and as he grew older, he simply found that his early intuitive wisdom was confirmed by experience: \u201cThe advantage of advancing years lies in discovering that traditions are true, and therefore alive; indeed, a tradition is not\u00a0even traditional except when it is alive. It is great fun to find out that the world has not repeated proverbs because they are proverbial, but because they are practical.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His confirmed wisdom did not make him grow cynical. On the contrary, he grew more\u00a0romantic. The beauty of his outlook is reflected in his prose during this time period, which is perhaps why nearly all of his\u00a0<i>Illustrated London News<\/i>\u00a0essays from 1929 to 1931 were collected into books (<i>Come to Think of It<\/i>,\u00a0<i>All is Grist<\/i>,\u00a0<i>All I Survey)<\/i>. They are captivating, as anything beautiful is.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>In this three-year run, he discusses how modern philosophy has taken the life out of modern literature, how materialism has been substituted for science, how history might have been, how the new religion that is always predicted to come, doesn&#8217;t.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Also included are more observations on America, since these columns were written during his second tour of the U.S. \u201cThe American error,\u201d he says, is \u201cthe notion that optimism is the same as idealism.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>In his very early career, Chesterton called himself an optimist, which he took to mean \u201cthe primary conviction that life is worth living and the world is worthy of our efforts for it.\u201d But later he sees that optimism has come to mean \u201ca cheap cheeriness\u201d based on \u201ca hollow belief in reality.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Chesterton&#8217;s firm grip on reality, however, is not to be confused with realism, which is a false version of reality. Rather than an optimist, Chesterton now characterizes himself as a Romantic, which he defines as:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The belief that the simplified and symbolic version of life, which depicts it, under the image of love and war, as a quest with a prize (especially a princess), is nevertheless a true version of life; that is an<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>a legitimate simplification. St. George must\u00a0kill the Dragon, or the Dragon will kill the princess; that seems to me a truer picture of the aim of life and the lot of man than any realistic novel. That may<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>fairly be called Romanticism; but it is almost the exact opposite of what the Humanists and the New Classicists mean by Romanticism. They mean the notion, not that St. George must kill the dragon, but<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>that St. George may get drunk and dream about dragons; or that, if he drinks enough, he may look forward to seeing even larger snakes. This sort of sodden subjective delusion is what they mean by Romanticism, and in that sense all they say of it is both practical and profound. And yet I think I could make a case for my own use of the word being the correct one.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He observes that those who break away from romance end up breaking away from reason, from a\u00a0 respect for human dignity and a right understanding of things. \u201cRealism, when entirely emptied of\u00a0romance, becomes utterly unreal. For romance was only the name given to a love of life . . .\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Chesterton says that realism may have a certain \u201cbravado\u201d to it, but the result is always \u201cthe loss of reality.\u201d It is not a triumph of truth, but \u201ca triumph of deception.\u201d Realism does not satisfy. Only the truth satisfies.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>And so Chesterton continues his\u00a0romantic battle against error because he is trying to protect something beautiful.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to suppress false doctrine, we must have a definition of true doctrine. And very few people now know exactly what doctrine is true, even if they feel a\u00a0great many current ones are false. \u2026 it is, after all, a moral doctrine which declares that mere appeals to mere appetites are wrong. It is a moral doctrine most decent people vaguely feel, but now a little too vaguely to be applied vigilantly. \u2026 They do\u00a0emphatically involve immortal and unalterable truth. The fact that a chaotic and ill-educated time cannot clearly grasp that truth does not alter the fact that it always will be the truth.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Our \u201cchaotic and ill-educated time\u201d is not concerned with\u00a0dogmas, but with diet, \u201cor rather with the idea of forcibly interfering with the diet of other people.\u201d It suffers from \u201cthe journalistic curse\u201d of being obsessed with the latest news, which means only hearing the end of the story without having heard the\u00a0beginning of it. It rejects tradition because it is old. It assumes religion is not \u201cup to date.\u201d It cuts itself off from the past, claiming to teach by experiment, but refusing to learn by experience.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>Chesterton the Romantic still insists that all truth\u00a0is connected to one truth, that all beautiful images are shadows of the one real beauty, that each of our creations should reflect the glory of God&#8217;s creation. And so he invokes St. Francis, \u201cthe patron of all birds, poets, and other minor nuisances.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>For the modern world, Chesterton the Romantic is dismissed as a dreamer. Never mind that he keeps being proved right as a prophet. But Chesterton perhaps prefers to be known as a dreamer rather than as a prophet. 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