{"id":39014,"date":"2018-12-04T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=39014"},"modified":"2018-12-05T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:02:08","slug":"lecture-133-the-loyal-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-133-the-loyal-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 133: The Loyal Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>New Witness<\/i>, Vol. I (1912-1913)<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As anyone who has read\u00a0<i>Orthodoxy<\/i>\u00a0knows, G.K. Chesterton claims to have written the book in response to a criticism made by a journalist named G.S. Street, who said he would worry about his own philosophy when Chesterton explained his. Thus, the book. One wonders if Mr. Street ever read that\u00a0book\u00a0he inspired. Four years later he made an even more inane criticism of Chesterton:\u00a0\u201cBut I will not admit the argument of Mr. G. K. Chesterton that in fiercer and bolder times it was the weak as against the strong who were glorified\u2026He cited \u2018Jack the Giant-Killer\u2019 and \u2018Robin Hood and the Tinker.\u2019\u2026But observe, observe carefully please, that the stories and ballads were made after the event&#8230;\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this case, Chesterton only responded with an essay, in which he offers this sparkling reflection: \u201cLiterature is not made merely of experiences. Literature is made of day-dreams. Literature uses the earth and sky, the pots and pans of experience.\u00a0So\u00a0do our daydreams.\u00a0So\u00a0do our nightmares&#8230; The elements of which the tale is made are necessarily drawn from what has happened. But the impulse to tell the tale is not drawn from what has happened. It is a desire to make it happen&#8230;It is the only kind of literature that can truly be called creative; like the moral actions it anticipates.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The exchange took place in\u00a0the pages of\u00a0<i>The New Witness<\/i>, the paper edited by Cecil Chesterton,\u00a0G.K&#8217;s\u00a0younger brother, which succeeded the short-lived\u00a0<i>Eye-Witness<\/i>\u00a0that had been edited by Hilaire Belloc.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The chief purpose of the paper was to expose political corruption. But even though there&#8217;s enough material there to fill a whole paper, it doesn&#8217;t make for the best reading.\u00a0So\u00a0the more famous elder brother was brought in to, by his own admission, take up his pen to fill the paper. He contributed poems, such as his well-known \u201cThe Song of Right and Wrong\u201d (\u201cFeast on wine and fast on water&#8230;\u201d), and his jarring \u201cSong Against Grocers\u201d:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God made the wicked Grocer<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For a mystery and a sign,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That men might shun the awful shops<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And go to inns to dine.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the very politically incorrect \u201cThe Saracen&#8217;s Head\u201d (which is still the name of a pub in Beaconsfield, though the old inn sign with its distinctive illustration has been removed.)<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He also contributed book reviews, which put him in the\u00a0the\u00a0delicate position of having to\u00a0review a book by one of his best friends, and trying to explain that it is really an excellent book in spite of the fact that E.C. Bentley wrote it.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A good detective-story is, broadly speaking, a reversible machine. It is a series of points or\u00a0pegs fitting into certain holes, which must be so\u00a0skilfully\u00a0made that when folded back the opposite way all the pegs fit into the holes as neatly as they did before. The word spelt forward must exactly contradict the word spelt backward, but using only the\u00a0same letters, and, unlike some such Baconian inscriptions, they must both be correctly spelt. The very fact that one end of the stick points to one thing ought to warn the reader that the other end points to the opposite. It is a struggle between the writer and reader for the possession of the right end of the stick.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book was\u00a0<i>Trent&#8217;s Last Case<\/i>, which is one of the most famous detective novels of the 20<span data-fontsize=\"12\">th<\/span>\u00a0century, and written by the inventor of the clerihew.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He also reviewed a biography about his favorite writer, Charles Dickens, that tended in Chesterton&#8217;s opinion to go a little too deeply into Dickens&#8217; personal failings as a husband. Chesterton acknowledges that the argument of \u201ca holy privacy\u201d can be taken too far. \u201cThere is such a thing as history, a healthy familiarity with the past; and it is one of the Rights of Man. All attempts, for instance, to hush up the facts concerning the fireside happiness of Henry VIII may be said to have broken down. And though\u00a0 King Solomon&#8217;s establishment of six hundred wives and three hundred concubines was doubtless, in theory, a domestic detail personal to himself, it was one he would have had some difficulty in concealing.\u201d But the point is that if a writer is making a case for morality, it is not irrelevant to mention his immorality. However, \u201ccertain investigations into famous families\u201d have a \u201cdwarfing effect\u201d upon the mind. Such seekers after truth have an enthusiasm that is a fever that exhausts rather than a fire that warms.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But though Chesterton tried to keep his involvement limited to literary criticism and light verse, he was soon drawn into political discussion, and would be drawn deeper and deeper into the paper. He would later become a regular columnist before becoming the temporary and then permanent editor after Cecil&#8217;s tragic death in France at the end of the Great War. 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