{"id":39000,"date":"2018-12-04T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=39000"},"modified":"2018-12-04T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:46:58","slug":"lecture-132-first-hand-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-132-first-hand-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 132: First Hand Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Eye-Witness<\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span>1911-1912<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The Eye-Witness<\/i>\u00a0only existed for one year. It was a weekly paper created and edited by Hilaire Belloc. It paved the way to the\u00a0<i>New Witness<\/i>, which\u00a0followed it, and\u00a0<i>G.K.&#8217;s Weekly<\/i>, which followed that. The original purpose was to expose political corruption. As an outgoing member of Parliament, Belloc had seen enough of it firsthand to fill many papers. But with Belloc as editor, the paper was not only\u00a0filled with mud; it was also a literary paper, featuring book reviews, poetry, and creative satire.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>G.K. Chesterton did not contribute much to it at all. But what he did contribute was sublime. Most of it was poetry, and most of the poems were ballades,\u00a0including his famous \u201cBallade of Suicide\u201d that includes the refrain \u201cI think I will not hang myself today.\u201d But let&#8217;s not forget \u201cA Ballade of Reasonable Inquiry\u201d (\u201cI think an explanation is required.\u201d), \u201cA Ballade of a Stoic\u201d (\u201cMy aunt is murdered\u2014and I do not mind.\u201d), \u201cA Ballade of a Book-Reviewer\u201d (\u201cAnd feed my brain with better things.\u201d), and \u201cBallade to a Philanthropist\u201d:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prince, I will not be knighted!\u00a0 No!<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Put up your sword and stow your tricks!<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Offering the Garter is no go\u2014<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BUT WILL YOU LEND ME TWO-AND-SIX?<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Philanthropists are a favorite target of Chesterton&#8217;s, and goes after them not only in a poem, but in one of the few book reviews and few essays that he contributes to the paper.\u00a0So\u00a0what&#8217;s wrong with philanthropists? They have\u00a0an unfair advantage in screwing up the world. And how do they go about it? By funding the latest educational fads and then molding the most malleable of minds. Chesterton says it is a form of kidnapping. The philanthropist captures children because he cannot capture adults. There is no debate, no battle, no resistance. \u201cThe philanthropic educationist is using two solely accidental advantages; first, the advantage of the wealthy man over the working classes; and secondly, the advantage of the grown-up person over the child&#8230;To sap the soul of an ancient people by infant schools is to make unmanly war.\u201d This is why most national educational systems become anti-national, and why strange ideals are taught to a new generation that are \u201ccontrary to the very blood, habits and literature of the people.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of being fair, one of the things Chesterton is able to do in the\u00a0<i>Eye-Witness<\/i>\u00a0is something that he regrets he cannot do in the\u00a0<i>Illustrated London News<\/i>: invite readers to write to him. He always felt it was\u00a0\u201cunsportsmanlike\u201d to express certain opinions in the larger mainstream paper because it provided no forum for those critical of his articles. But Belloc gave readers lots of space to vent. Chesterton once said that if an editor can make his readers angry enough, they will write half his paper for free. (That strategy has never worked for\u00a0<i>Gilbert!<\/i>\u00a0We&#8217;ve only managed to get readers to cancel their subscriptions.)<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One reader, in objecting to GKC&#8217;s criticism of philanthropists, says that he makes the\u00a0mistake of assuming that all philanthropists are socialists and that all socialists are wealthy. Chesterton responds that he does not think all socialists are wealthy.\u00a0 But \u201cI think (or rather know) that their fundamental philosophy came from the wealthy.\u00a0Very roughly, it is the sentiment that we are responsible for the poor as we are for dogs and cats; never the idea that we are responsible to the poor as we are to friends and\u00a0enemies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One letter-writer says he&#8217;s damned if understands what Chesterton\u00a0is saying. Chesterton responds that the gentleman is damned if he doesn&#8217;t.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And to the standard criticism with which Chesterton is dismissed, he responds: \u201cI am not a master of paradox, nor (which is much the same thing) a slave of it.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Philanthropy is part of the English Revolution, which is rather the opposite of the more well-known French Revolution. In England the Revolution is the rich against the poor. Chesterton bemoans the lost revolution in England. However, he says that just because a revolt has\u00a0not conquered, it does not mean it never occurred. \u201cNo one writes or speaks, for instance, about the insurrections all over England against the ecclesiastical policy of Henry VIII.; and that priceless ass who writes the Protestant novels said the other day\u00a0that the Reformation &#8216;relied on the simple power of the Gospel.&#8217;\u201d Just as the thwarted attempts to overthrow the Protestant Reformation in England, so the attempts of the working classes to overthrow their overlords go unstudied when the classrooms are controlled by the conquerors.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<i>Eye-Witness<\/i>, Chesterton wrote less about the political control than the cultural control exercised by the rich, but there is one veiled reference to the Marconi Scandal which is starting to boil and about to explode. While it is still in the officially-being-hushed-up stage, Chesterton writes a witty dialogue between Fortinbras and Horatio in the wake of all that unpleasantness at Elsinore, where Horatio is trying to get the truth out, but Fortinbras is stonewalling by avoiding asking the right questions.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We should mention one other poem he wrote for the\u00a0<i>Eye-Witness<\/i>. The fact that he wrote it for this paper may explain why it reads in like a first-hand account. The event it depicts, however, is not a contemporary one but\u00a0a historic one. 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