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G.K. Chesterton was a master essayist. But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written.
The only problem with Chesterton's…
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G. K. Chesterton's essays are all at least 90 years old, but the topics they address seem as current as today's news websites. His astute analyses of the human condition and the foibles of human philosophies and educational fads still resonate today, and his ability to find inspiration for meditation and wonder in commonplace things remains startling and fresh. Would that more of today's commentators and pundits shared both his piercing insight and his sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime.
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