Word: chestertonians
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Dates: during 1907-1907
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...ideals; we honor him because he insists on the value of ideals and of faith as springs of action; because he would substitute for our modern, sentimental purposelessness the energy of a brave purpose; because he is not what the author concludes, with the worst kind of Chestertonian paradox which consists in twisting a word entirely out of its accepted meaning--because he is not the most decadent of the decadents. Chesterton is a force for manliness and for righteousness; such was not the most typical of the decadents, Oscar Wilde. Of the stories, "The Treasure Voyage...