{"id":38956,"date":"2018-12-04T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38956"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:22:12","slug":"lecture-113-short-articles-on-huge-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-113-short-articles-on-huge-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 113: Short Articles on Huge Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Daily News<\/i>, Volume 2, 1903-04<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his third year on the paper, he was still engaging his readers with surprising twists on familiar subjects and defying most of the\u00a0trends that were being accelerated and celebrated everywhere else. He defends patriotism but criticizes imperialism (which meant opposing the Boer War), defends the preservation of rural life against the creeping urban life, and defends liberalism while criticizing liberals. He sees a coming loss of freedom and coming loss of character. Not yet 30 years old, he is already a master essayist, writing \u201cshort articles on huge subjects.\u201d He writes, he says, \u201cwith one great hope, that of arousing controversy.\u201d In\u00a0early 1903, he takes the greatest risk of his still new vocation as a writer, and springs the biggest surprise yet on his readers, one that would change the course of his career. He dares to talk about religion. \u201cReligious liberty means (apparently) that\u00a0no one is allowed to speak of important matters at all.\u00a0 All that our modern tolerance has done is to put the saint in the same dungeon with the heresiarch.\u00a0 Then we talk about the weather, and call it the absolute liberation of all the creeds.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What are\u00a0the essentials of a great religion? Chesterton tells us forthrightly. It is \u201cdecisive\u201d and \u201cparadoxical.\u201d It covers \u201cthe whole of life\u201d and speaks \u201cas if from outside it.\u201d Above all, it has \u201cthe two supreme and indispensable marks of a great religion; firstly, it [is] regarded by most people as funny, and secondly it really [is] funny.\u201d A great religion \u201cmust have forms, festivals, music, and arrogance, like the Roman Church or the Salvation Army. . . must, if it [is] to have faith, learn to play the fool.\u201d\u00a0 It is absurd to say that a man is \u201cready to toil or die for his convictions when he [is] not even ready to wear a wreath round his head for it.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not only has no one expected him to write about religion in a secular newspaper, he writes about religion in\u00a0a way no one expects. Not surprising then, that he says religion must be paradoxical. Chesterton was already becoming famous for his paradoxes, and many of his readers and admirers assumed that he was being merely paradoxical by defending religion in general and Christianity in particular. But the jovial Chesterton was quite serious even if he was quite funny. \u201cAll\u00a0paradoxers,\u201d he writes, \u201cif they be also honest men, are aiming joyfully at their own destruction. We have paradoxes, and it is our effort, day\u00a0and night, to turn them into truisms.\u201d What he is striving to achieve is not the paradox, but the platitude. \u201cEvery man who is fighting for his own beliefs is fighting to take it away from himself.\u00a0 He may be clever in dull places and important in mean places; but in the land that he desires he will be nothing\u2014a reed with the reeds in the river.\u201d A truism is a popular truth, a paradox an unpopular one. But they are both true.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>G.K. Chesterton had already been getting a lot of attention for his\u00a0<i>Daily News<\/i>\u00a0essays\u2014the sales of the\u00a0<i>Daily News<\/i>\u00a0would spike every Saturday when his weekly column would appear\u2014but now he was\u00a0<i>really<\/i>\u00a0getting attention. He especially got the attention of the editor of the Socialist daily,\u00a0<i>The Clarion<\/i>, Robert Blatchford, who happened to\u00a0be an outspoken atheist. Blatchford engaged the young upstart in a debate, and their controversy was conducted in a different paper called the\u00a0<i>Commonwealth.<\/i>\u00a0But it spilled over into several\u00a0<i>Daily News<\/i>\u00a0essays. To Blatchford&#8217;s challenge that there is no evidence for the divine, Chesterton counters that the problem rather is an abundance of evidence, and both the detective in human affairs and divine affairs nearly goes mad having to sift through it all.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for religion being driven by mere superstition, Chesterton says the same could be true of the stock market. Supposing there were a society that had stock exchange and no commerce and no paper money. The skeptic from that world would mock the men of our time who \u201cspeculated so much about the\u00a0Unknown and the\u00a0Unknowable that they actually bought and sold invisible things\u2014things that they could not see or handle,\u201d men who seemed to believe \u201cthat they had bags of gold or bales of wool in their hands, whereas to the rational eye their hands were entirely empty.\u201d Or take the case of community that did not care about physical science. To them the scientific research of the 19<span data-fontsize=\"12\">th<\/span>\u00a0century would appear to be nothing but superstition. \u201cThey would learn, for instance, that brave men went out in ships and died in the agonies of frost in order to find a place called the North Pole, in which nobody could possible live, and which was of no conceivable use to anybody, except that it was the meeting point of a number of lines that had no existence at all.\u201d The public enjoyed the\u00a0repartee.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although Blatchford was mostly courteous in his verbal duel with Chesterton, and may have been the model for the atheist Turnbull in\u00a0<i>The Ball and the Cross<\/i>, he did brag that he was going to smash the young Chesterton to \u201cblack smithereens.\u201d Chesterton gently warned him about acting as his own umpire in the controversy, that it would be up to others to decide who would be the victor. Chesterton&#8217;s arguments can still be relished in these\u00a0<i>Daily News<\/i>\u00a0reprints. 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