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65-550: Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author , philosopher , Christian apologist , and literary and art critic . Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown , and wrote on apologetics , such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man . Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism , eventually converting from high church Anglicanism . Biographers have identified him as

130-685: A fictitious Prussian professor named Whirlwind make the case for Prussia in WWI, while actually attacking Prussia throughout. Part of the book's humorous impact is the conceit that Professor Whirlwind never realizes how his supposed benefactor is undermining Prussia at every turn. Chesterton "blames" England for historically building up Prussia against Austria, and for its pacifism, especially among wealthy British Quaker political donors, who prevented Britain from standing up to past Prussian aggression. Chesterton faced accusations of antisemitism during his lifetime, saying in his 1920 book The New Jerusalem that it

195-520: A freelance art and literary critic. In 1902, The Daily News gave him a weekly opinion column, followed in 1905 by a weekly column in The Illustrated London News , for which he continued to write for the next thirty years. Early on Chesterton showed a great interest in and talent for art. He had planned to become an artist, and his writing shows a vision that clothed abstract ideas in concrete and memorable images. Father Brown

260-536: A great many people for a great many years for being unprogressive, Mr Shaw has discovered, with characteristic sense, that it is very doubtful whether any existing human being with two legs can be progressive at all. Having come to doubt whether humanity can be combined with progress, most people, easily pleased, would have elected to abandon progress and remain with humanity. Mr Shaw, not being easily pleased, decides to throw over humanity with all its limitations and go in for progress for its own sake. If man, as we know him,

325-440: A letter to Sheldon Vanauken (14 December 1950), Lewis called the book "the best popular apologetic I know", and to Rhonda Bodle he wrote (31 December 1947) "the [very] best popular defence of the full Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man ". The book was also cited in a list of 10 books that "most shaped his vocational attitude and philosophy of life". Chesterton's hymn "O God of Earth and Altar"

390-413: A policy in the matter; and it was in substance the desire to give Jews the dignity and status of a separate nation. We desired that in some fashion, and so far as possible, Jews should be represented by Jews, should live in a society of Jews, should be judged by Jews and ruled by Jews. I am an Anti-Semite if that is Anti-Semitism. It would seem more rational to call it Semitism. In the same place he proposed

455-601: A posthumous tribute to Chesterton in 1937: When Hitlerism came, he was one of the first to speak out with all the directness and frankness of a great and unabashed spirit. Blessing to his memory! In The Truth About the Tribes, Chesterton attacked Nazi racial theories , writing: "the essence of Nazi Nationalism is to preserve the purity of a race in a continent where all races are impure". The historian Simon Mayers points out that Chesterton wrote in works such as The Crank , The Heresy of Race , and The Barbarian as Bore against

520-510: A public performer—to maintain the existence of the important minority in the modern world. He leaves behind a permanent claim upon our loyalty, to see that the work that he did in his time is continued in ours. Eliot commented further that "His poetry was first-rate journalistic balladry, and I do not suppose that he took it more seriously than it deserved. He reached a high imaginative level with The Napoleon of Notting Hill , and higher with The Man Who Was Thursday , romances in which he turned

585-420: A red and gold ribbon. In ecclesiastical heraldry , laymen awarded the high rank of Grand Cross can display a red and gold ribbon surrounding the shield in their personal coats of arms , but the recipients of the lower ranks place an appropriate ribbon below the shield. The difference between the civilian and military insignia is that the former group wears the cross hanging from a green crown of laurel , whereas

650-648: A sheet of tin". Chesterton usually wore a cape and a crumpled hat, with a swordstick in hand, and a cigar hanging out of his mouth. He had a tendency to forget where he was supposed to be going and miss the train that was supposed to take him there. It is reported that on several occasions he sent a telegram to his wife Frances from an incorrect location, writing such things as "Am in Market Harborough . Where ought I to be?" to which she would reply, "Home". Chesterton himself told this story, omitting, however, his wife's alleged reply, in his autobiography. In 1931,

715-546: A silent film that was never released. On 7 January 1914 Chesterton (along with his brother Cecil and future sister-in-law Ada ) took part in the mock-trial of John Jasper for the murder of Edwin Drood . Chesterton was Judge and George Bernard Shaw played the role of foreman of the jury. Chesterton was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and weighing around 20 stone 6 pounds (130 kg; 286 lb). His girth gave rise to an anecdote during

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780-502: A single sentence, after a fashion which no one else has approached. He stood quite by himself in this department. He understood the very minds (to take the two most famous names) of Thackeray and of Dickens . He understood and presented Meredith . He understood the supremacy in Milton . He understood Pope . He understood the great Dryden . He was not swamped as nearly all his contemporaries were by Shakespeare , wherein they drown as in

845-505: A smaller cross on the left breast of the uniform: Flambeau (character) He first appeared in the story " The Blue Cross " as a jewel thief. Father Brown foiled his attempted crimes in this and several other stories. As a notorious and elusive criminal, Flambeau is a worry for law-enforcers. He is exposed by Father Brown, and later becomes a detective himself. His last appearance as a thief occurs in "The Flying Stars", in which Father Brown persuades him to return his loot and to give up

910-544: A sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. The kind man drinks and turns cruel; the frank man kills and lies about it. Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime." Chesterton loved to debate, often engaging in friendly public disputes with such men as George Bernard Shaw , H. G. Wells , Bertrand Russell and Clarence Darrow . According to his autobiography, he and Shaw played cowboys in

975-466: A successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold , Thomas Carlyle , John Henry Newman and John Ruskin . He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox ". Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges , who compared his work with that of Edgar Allan Poe . Chesterton

1040-402: A vast sea – for that is what Shakespeare is. Gilbert Chesterton continued to understand the youngest and latest comers as he understood the forefathers in our great corpus of English verse and prose." In his book Heretics , Chesterton said this of Oscar Wilde : "The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It

1105-734: Is buried in Beaconsfield in the Catholic Cemetery. Chesterton's estate was probated at £28,389, equivalent to £2,436,459 in 2023. Near the end of Chesterton's life, Pope Pius XI invested him as Knight Commander with Star of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great (KC*SG). The Chesterton Society has proposed that he be beatified . Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4,000 essays (mostly newspaper columns), and several plays. He

1170-449: Is incapable of the philosophy of progress, Mr Shaw asks, not for a new kind of philosophy, but for a new kind of man. It is rather as if a nurse had tried a rather bitter food for some years on a baby, and on discovering that it was not suitable, should not throw away the food and ask for a new food, but throw the baby out of window, and ask for a new baby. Chesterton's views, in contrast to Shaw and others, became increasingly focused towards

1235-527: Is often associated with his close friend, the poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc . George Bernard Shaw coined the name "Chesterbelloc" for their partnership, and this stuck. Though they were very different men, they shared many beliefs; in 1922, Chesterton joined Belloc in the Catholic faith, and both voiced criticisms of capitalism and socialism. They instead espoused a third way: distributism . G. K.'s Weekly , which occupied much of Chesterton's energy in

1300-615: Is one of the five orders of knighthood of the Holy See . The honor is bestowed upon Catholic men and women (and certain notable non-Catholics) in recognition of their personal service to the Holy See and to the Catholic Church, through their unusual labors, their support of the Holy See, and the examples they set in their communities and their countries. The inaugural brief states, in part, that "gentlemen of proven loyalty to

1365-452: Is perpetually correcting the incorrect vision of the bewildered folks at the scene of the crime and wandering off at the end with the criminal to exercise his priestly role of recognition, repentance and reconciliation. For example, in the story " The Flying Stars ", Father Brown entreats the character Flambeau to give up his life of crime: "There is still youth and honour and humour in you; don't fancy they will last in that trade. Men may keep

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1430-400: Is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw." More briefly, and with a closer approximation to Wilde's own style, he wrote in his 1908 book Orthodoxy concerning the necessity of making symbolic sacrifices for

1495-643: Is the priest-detective Father Brown , who appeared only in short stories, while The Man Who Was Thursday is arguably his best-known novel. He was a convinced Christian long before he was received into the Catholic Church, and Christian themes and symbolism appear in much of his writing. In the United States, his writings on distributism were popularised through The American Review , published by Seward Collins in New York. Of his nonfiction, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1906) has received some of

1560-595: Is unfortunate that he made] claims that 'Hitlerism' was a form of Judaism, and that the Jews were partly responsible for race theory". In The Judaism of Hitler , as well as in A Queer Choice and The Crank , Chesterton made much of the fact that the very notion of "a Chosen Race" was of Jewish origin, saying in The Crank : "If there is one outstanding quality in Hitlerism it is its Hebraism" and "the new Nordic Man has all

1625-484: The BBC invited Chesterton to give a series of radio talks. He accepted, tentatively at first. He was allowed (and encouraged) to improvise on the scripts. This allowed his talks to maintain an intimate character, as did the decision to allow his wife and secretary to sit with him during his broadcasts. The talks were very popular. A BBC official remarked, after Chesterton's death, that "in another year or so, he would have become

1690-686: The Second Boer War , set him very much apart from most of the rest of the British press. Chesterton was a Little Englander , opposed to imperialism , British or otherwise. Chesterton thought that Great Britain betrayed her own principles in the Boer Wars. In vivid contrast to his opposition to the Boer Wars, Chesterton vigorously defended and encouraged the Allies in World War I . "The war

1755-603: The Stevensonian fantasy to more serious purpose. His book on Dickens seems to me the best essay on that author that has ever been written. Some of his essays can be read again and again; though of his essay-writing as a whole, one can only say that it is remarkable to have maintained such a high average with so large an output." In 2022, a three-volume bibliography of Chesterton was published, listing 9,000 contributions he made to newspapers, magazines, and journals, as well as 200 books and 3,000 articles about him. Chesterton

1820-464: The occult and, along with his brother Cecil , experimented with Ouija boards . He was educated at St Paul's School , then attended the Slade School of Art to become an illustrator. The Slade is a department of University College London , where Chesterton also took classes in literature, but he did not complete a degree in either subject. He married Frances Blogg in 1901; the marriage lasted

1885-525: The Church. In Orthodoxy he wrote: "The worship of will is the negation of will   ... If Mr Bernard Shaw comes up to me and says, 'Will something', that is tantamount to saying, 'I do not mind what you will', and that is tantamount to saying, 'I have no will in the matter.' You cannot admire will in general, because the essence of will is that it is particular." Chesterton's The Everlasting Man contributed to C. S. Lewis 's conversion to Christianity. In

1950-629: The First World War, when a lady in London asked why he was not "out at the Front "; he replied, "If you go round to the side, you will see that I am." On another occasion he remarked to his friend George Bernard Shaw, "To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England." Shaw retorted, "To look at you, anyone would think you had caused it." P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like G. K. Chesterton falling onto

2015-476: The Holy See who, by reason of their nobility of birth and the renown of their deeds or the degree of their munificence, are deemed worthy to be honored by a public expression of esteem on the part of the Holy See". The end of the brief states that they must progressively maintain, by continued meritorious deed, the reputation and trust they had already inspired, and prove themselves worthy of the honor that had been conferred on them, by unswerving fidelity to God and to

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2080-660: The London literary scene in the early 20th century. Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on 14 June 1936, aged 62, at his home in Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire. His last words were a greeting of good morning spoken to his wife Frances. The sermon at Chesterton's Requiem Mass in Westminster Cathedral , London, was delivered by Ronald Knox on 27 June 1936. Knox said, "All of this generation has grown up under Chesterton's influence so completely that we do not even know when we are thinking Chesterton." He

2145-456: The War, Chesterton wrote hundreds of essays defending it, attacking pacifism, and exhorting the public to persevere until victory. Some of these essays were collected in the 1916 work, The Barbarism of Berlin . One of Chesterton's most successful works in support of the War was his 1915 tongue-in-cheek The Crimes of England . The work is masterfully ironic, supposedly apologizing and trying to help

2210-434: The accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father. Chesterton also called himself "the last liberal". Chesterton first emerged as a journalist just after the turn of the 20th century. His great, and very lonely, opposition to

2275-474: The broadest-based praise. According to Ian Ker ( The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845–1961 , 2003), "In Chesterton's eyes Dickens belongs to Merry , not Puritan , England"; Ker treats Chesterton's thought in chapter 4 of that book as largely growing out of his true appreciation of Dickens, a somewhat shop-soiled property in the view of other literary opinions of the time. The biography

2340-513: The capitalists of the age, the men with wealth banked ready for use", might legitimately complain that "Christian kings and nobles, and even Christian popes and bishops, used for Christian purposes (such as the Crusades and the cathedrals) the money that could only be accumulated in such mountains by a usury they inconsistently denounced as unchristian; and then, when worse times came, gave up the Jew to

2405-441: The clerihew form. He became godfather to Bentley's son, Nicolas , and opened his novel The Man Who Was Thursday with a poem written to Bentley. In September 1895, Chesterton began working for the London publisher George Redway, where he remained for just over a year. In October 1896, he moved to the publishing house T. Fisher Unwin , where he remained until 1902. During this period he also undertook his first journalistic work, as

2470-498: The concept of racial superiority and critiqued pseudo-scientific race theories, saying they were akin to a new religion. In The Truth About the Tribes Chesterton wrote, "the curse of race religion is that it makes each separate man the sacred image which he worships. His own bones are the sacred relics; his own blood is the blood of St. Januarius ". Mayers records that despite "his hostility towards Nazi antisemitism … [it

2535-554: The criminal life. As a reformed criminal, Flambeau assists Father Brown in a number of other short stories, beginning with "The Invisible Man". Although Brown and Flambeau spend much of the day together in "The Blue Cross", when they meet again in " The Queer Feet ", Brown recognizes Flambeau but the thief has no recollection of the priest. He becomes Flambeau's friend before he reforms him, and uses this friendship to transform him. In "The Secret of Flambeau", Flambeau credits Father Brown for his reformation when he says, "Have I not heard

2600-547: The day, who though very clever, were saying things that he considered nonsensical. This is illustrated again in Orthodoxy : "Thus when Mr H. G. Wells says (as he did somewhere), 'All chairs are quite different', he utters not merely a misstatement, but a contradiction in terms. If all chairs were quite different, you could not call them 'all chairs'." Chesterton was an early member of the Fabian Society but resigned at

2665-580: The dominating voice from Broadcasting House." Chesterton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1935. Chesterton was part of the Detection Club , a society of British mystery authors founded by Anthony Berkeley in 1928. He was elected as the first president and served from 1930 to 1936 until he was succeeded by E. C. Bentley . Chesterton was one of the dominating figures of

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2730-542: The few readers who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas Aquinas, and who, perhaps, have themselves published two or three volumes on the subject, cannot fail to perceive that the so-called 'wit' of Chesterton has put their scholarship to shame." Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen , the author of 70 books, identified Chesterton as the stylist who had the greatest impact on his own writing, stating in his autobiography Treasure in Clay , "the greatest influence in writing

2795-412: The front and three buttons on the cuffs and is lined with black satin. Finally, the costume contains suspenders, several yellow and red rosettes, white leather gloves , and a short sword with a handle made of mother of pearl with a medallion of the order at the end. Knights Grand Cross wear a sash and a badge or star on the left side of the breast; Commanders wear a cross around the neck; and Knights wear

2860-498: The fury of the poor". In The New Jerusalem, Chesterton dedicated a chapter to his views on the Jewish question : the sense that Jews were a distinct people without a homeland of their own, living as foreigners in countries where they were always a minority. He wrote that in the past, his position: was always called Anti-Semitism; but it was always much more true to call it Zionism.   ... my friends and I had in some general sense

2925-548: The gift of creation: "Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde." Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they each maintained good will toward, and respect for, the other. In his writing, Chesterton expressed himself very plainly on where they differed and why. In Heretics he writes of Shaw: After belabouring

2990-613: The last 15 years of his life, was the successor to Belloc's New Witness , taken over from Cecil Chesterton , Gilbert's brother, who died in World War I. In his book On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters , Belloc wrote that "Everything he wrote upon any one of the great English literary names was of the first quality. He summed up any one pen (that of Jane Austen , for instance) in exact sentences; sometimes in

3055-421: The latter group wears the cross hanging from a trophy of arms. The Order comprises four classes: A green uniform was later prescribed by Pope Pius IX . The uniform contains a black beaver-felt hat decorated with black silk ribbons, silver metallic twisted rope, buttons and black ostrich feathers. The jacket, made of green wool, is trimmed with silver metallic thread, and has a tail, nine yellow metal buttons in

3120-639: The most vocal critics, "The Jew-baiting at the time of the Boer War and the Marconi scandal was linked to a broader protest, mounted in the main by the Radical wing of the Liberal Party, against the growing visibility of successful businessmen in national life and their challenge to what were seen as traditional English values." In a work of 1917, titled A Short History of England , Chesterton considers

3185-606: The rest of his life. Chesterton credited Frances with leading him back to Anglicanism , though he later considered Anglicanism to be a "pale imitation". He entered in full communion with the Catholic Church in 1922. The couple were unable to have children. A friend from schooldays was Edmund Clerihew Bentley , inventor of the clerihew , a whimsical four-line biographical poem. Chesterton himself wrote clerihews and illustrated his friend's first published collection of poetry, Biography for Beginners (1905), which popularised

3250-430: The royal decree of 1290 by which Edward I expelled Jews from England , a policy that remained in place until 1655. Chesterton writes that popular perception of Jewish moneylenders could well have led Edward I's subjects to regard him as a "tender father of his people" for "breaking the rule by which the rulers had hitherto fostered their bankers' wealth". He felt that Jews, "a sensitive and highly civilized people" who "were

3315-542: The sermons of the righteous? [...] Do you think all that ever did anything but make me laugh? Only my friend told me that he knew exactly why I stole, and I have never stolen since." Flambeau's fate is revealed in "The Secret of Father Brown". Retiring as a detective, he marries and settles in a Spanish castle, raises a large family and lives in a blissful state of domesticity. Flambeau gives up his assumed name and returns to using his birth name, Duroc. It has been suggested that Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot

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3380-467: The sovereign Pontiff. The awarding of the Order of St. Gregory the Great presents no particular obligations on the recipients toward the Catholic Church – except for the general ones stated above. An eight-pointed cross , the insignia of the order, bears a representation of St. Gregory on the obverse and on the reverse the motto Pro Deo et Principe ("For God and Ruler"). The cross is suspended from

3445-541: The thought experiment (describing it as "a parable" and "a flippant fancy") that Jews should be admitted to any role in English public life on condition that they must wear distinctively Middle Eastern garb, explaining that "The point is that we should know where we are; and he would know where he is, which is in a foreign land." Chesterton, like Belloc, openly expressed his abhorrence of Adolf Hitler 's rule almost as soon as it started. As Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise wrote in

3510-554: The time of the Boer War . He is often identified as a traditionalist conservative  due to his staunch support of tradition, expressed in Orthodoxy and other works with Burkean  quotes such as the following: Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by

3575-553: The worst faults of the worst Jews: jealousy, greed, the mania of conspiracy, and above all, the belief in a Chosen Race". Knight Commander with Star of the Order of St Gregory the Great The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great ( Latin : Ordo Sancti Gregorii Magni ; Italian : Ordine di San Gregorio Magno ) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI , seven months after his election as Pope. The order

3640-589: Was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite." Chesterton wrote the introduction to Sheen's book God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy; A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas . Defunct Chesterton has been called "The Apostle of Common Sense". He was critical of the thinkers and popular philosophers of

3705-567: Was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright, novelist, and Catholic theologian and apologist , debater, and mystery writer. He was a columnist for the Daily News , The Illustrated London News , and his own paper, G. K.'s Weekly ; he also wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica , including the entry on Charles Dickens and part of the entry on Humour in the 14th edition (1929). His best-known character

3770-542: Was allowed to go out of print in the United States because of the "anti-Semitism which mars so many pages." The Marconi scandal of 1912–1913 brought issues of anti-Semitism into the political mainstream. Senior ministers in the Liberal government had secretly profited from advance knowledge of deals regarding wireless telegraphy, and critics regarded it as relevant that some of the key players were Jewish. According to historian Todd Endelman, who identified Chesterton as among

3835-441: Was another one, with words by G. K. Chesterton O God of Earth and Altar – very fire and brimstone: 'Bow down and hear our cry'. I used that for an Iron Maiden song, "Revelations". In my strange and clumsy way I was trying to say look it's all the same stuff." Étienne Gilson praised Chesterton's book on Thomas Aquinas : "I consider it as being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on Saint Thomas   ...

3900-585: Was born in Campden Hill in Kensington , London, on 29 May 1874. His father was Edward Chesterton, an estate agent, and his mother was Marie Louise, née Grosjean, of Swiss-French origin. Chesterton was baptised at the age of one month into the Church of England , though his family themselves were irregularly practising Unitarians . According to his autobiography, as a young man he became fascinated with

3965-535: Was importantly and consistently on the side of the angels. Behind the Johnsonian fancy dress, so reassuring to the British public, he concealed the most serious and revolutionary designs—concealing them by exposure   ... Chesterton's social and economic ideas   ... were fundamentally Christian and Catholic. He did more, I think, than any man of his time—and was able to do more than anyone else, because of his particular background, development and abilities as

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4030-699: Was in Chesterton's eyes a crusade, and he was certain that England was right to fight as she had been wrong in fighting the Boers." Chesterton saw the roots of the war in Prussian militarism. He was deeply disturbed by Prussia's unprovoked invasion and occupation of neutral Belgium and by reports of shocking atrocities the Imperial German Army was allegedly committing in Belgium. Over the course of

4095-402: Was largely responsible for creating a popular revival for Dickens's work as well as a serious reconsideration of Dickens by scholars. Chesterton's writings consistently displayed wit and a sense of humour. He employed paradox, while making serious comments on the world, government, politics, economics, philosophy, theology and many other topics. T. S. Eliot summed up his work as follows: He

4160-536: Was printed in The Commonwealth and then included in The English Hymnal in 1906. Several lines of the hymn appear in the beginning of the song "Revelations" by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden on their 1983 album Piece of Mind . Lead singer Bruce Dickinson in an interview stated "I have a fondness for hymns. I love some of the ritual, the beautiful words, Jerusalem and there

4225-571: Was something "for which my friends and I were for a long period rebuked and even reviled". Despite his protestations to the contrary, the accusation continues to be repeated. An early supporter of Captain Dreyfus , by 1906 he had turned into an anti-dreyfusard . From the early 20th century, his fictional work included caricatures of Jews, stereotyping them as greedy, cowardly, disloyal and communists. Martin Gardner suggests that Four Faultless Felons

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