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Most of these have never been reprinted since their first appearance, and many of them have not seen the light of day for over one hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>This new book collects thirty-nine essays written for the weekly magazines\u00a0<i><span class=\"il\">Black<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"il\">White<\/span><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>The Bystander<\/i>\u00a0in 1903-1904, the years when the creative powers of young G.K. Chesterton were in their full bloom and he was establishing himself as the most exciting and provocative new writer on the London literary scene.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Chesterton at his paradoxical best with such titles as:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">That\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Black<\/span>\u00a0Is, in a General Sense,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">White<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">That Respectable People Are More Interesting Than Bohemians<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">That Bigoted People Have No Beliefs<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">That the Simple Life Is an Artificial Nuisance<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">That Humour Is an Overrated Quality<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">As Dale Ahlquist says: \u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We see in these essays, a foreshadowing of the arguments that will appear four years later in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Orthodoxy<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">: that poetry and imagination are sane, and that isolated logic can be maddening. 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