{"id":6375,"date":"2012-09-24T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?page_id=6375"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:17:47","slug":"lecture-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 94: Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Illustrated London News<\/em> 1914-16<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/shop\/collected-works-vol-xxx\/\">Volume 30 of <em>The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his 1910 book\u00a0<em>William Blake<\/em> (see also the lecture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/lecture-18\/\">William Blake<\/a>), G.K. Chesterton says that we all wake up on a battlefield, a reference to the spiritual warfare into which each of us is born. Five years later, Chesterton had rather more direct sensation of that experience. He had had a complete physical collapse at the end of 1914, and four months later emerged from a semi-comatose state to full consciousness to find his country in the midst of World War I. The interesting thing about this volume of Illustrated London News essays is that we see Chesterton both before and after his God-imposed leave of absence from writing. He wakes up fighting, but the landscape of the whole world has changed.<\/p>\n<p>In his first essay upon his return he announces that he does not want to write about the war; he wants to write about everything else. But for the next three and a half years, with increasing and narrowing specificity, most of his columns will be about the war. The columns in the early part of the war, in 1915 and 1916, are by far the most interesting because Chesterton defines what the war is about.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is the modern world. It is the culmination of four centuries of deteriorating philosophy, a steady descent from Catholic Europe. It is the product of the \u201cGerman professors\u201d but also of leaders who have embraced a theory of racial superiority. Chesterton makes the distinction between Germany and Prussia, and while the distinction is lost on some, this new enemy is actually a very old enemy. It is the ancient dragon. \u201cThe dragon is a dragon,\u201d says Chesterton, known by its \u201ctyranny and treachery and a thirst for the things of death.\u201d It is the enemy of Christendom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before you start accusing Chesterton of low insults and inflamed rhetoric, it would be useful to step back and consider all the characteristics he identifies in the dragon. If you read these columns and ignore the references to Germany and insert instead \u201cthe modern world,\u201d you will see quite clearly that we are still doing battle with the dragon.<\/p>\n<p>Your notes would look something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Unmanly militarism<br \/>\nExcuses for the powerful and routine for the poor<br \/>\nLong words of explanation and short cuts in conduct<br \/>\nCare of the self and carelessness of the soul<br \/>\nWorse than destructive \u2013 uncreative and anti-creative<br \/>\nProud, especially proud of being modern<br \/>\nAbnormal sensitivity and active sulks<br \/>\nClaims of inevitability<br \/>\nReliance on the mechanized<br \/>\nLicense without freedom<br \/>\nFreedom without responsibility<br \/>\nMoral anarchy<br \/>\nFragmentary ideas<br \/>\nFree thought<br \/>\nNietzsche<br \/>\nAnti-Christian<br \/>\nObsessed with hygiene and efficiency<br \/>\nUniformity over a large space rather than variety in a small space.<br \/>\nUnmoral lecturing in the higher morality<br \/>\nLaborious books on ethics and economics<br \/>\nMirthless cynicism<br \/>\nSham science and shifty diplomacy<br \/>\nFalse universality<br \/>\nWild ideas and weak art<br \/>\nPedantry, perversion, and a cult of panic.<\/p>\n<p>Chesterton says \u201cTheir deity is a clich\u00e9 not a creed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the problem is that nobody is willing to stand up and oppose them for what they are. Instead of doing battle with them, our own leaders attempt to mollify them, with \u201cthe utterly meaningless moderation of men who lose their own dogmas but cannot find any other.\u201d They have lost their dogmas because they have lost their first principles, and so \u201ccast about trying to draw the line somewhere and draw it everywhere but in the right place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so Chesterton is not only doing war with the dragon, but with the pacifists who are unwilling to fight the dragon.<\/p>\n<p>Chesterton maintains that a religious war is better than a racial war. We are fighting a religion of irreligion. It is about protecting dignity \u2013 our own and even that of the enemy. It is about saving souls \u2013 even the souls of the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our cause is wrong,\u201d says Chesterton, \u201cit is wrong because of the vanities, self-deceptions, and jealousies of civilised human beings.\u201d But it will not be wrong because of the wrong theory of man and of the souls of men. Which is why he warns: \u201cWe must greatly purify ourselves even to be worthy of this war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1914-1916<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[931,923],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chesterton-101","tag-before-and-after","tag-essay"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lecture 94-Before and After<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Before and After, Chesterton maintains that we are fighting a religion of irreligion. 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