Chesterton is a 10 letter English word.
You can make 653 anagrams from letters in Chesterton (ceehnorstt).
At this point agreement with Mr. Chesterton becomes difficult.
But that is not the only class of humour of which Chesterton is capable.
It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.
And Chesterton does criticize Dickens as the contemporary of all these phenomena.
I found her, as Shaw found Chesterton, “to sometimes be at his best when you disagreed with him.”
But the final criticism of Chesterton's Orthodoxy is that it is not orthodox.
The last thing to be said on Chesterton as a critic is by way of illustration.
A little gospel here, a little Chesterton there, a little waistcoat here.
Chesterton's method in writing it is that of the digger wasp.
We need only pause to note Chesterton personifies this dualism.
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