I finally finished the selection William Griffin made for the 'modern spiritual masters series'. One oddity to begin with is that I would not have selected all these pieces for such a 'spiritual' series: some were quite funny, but not overly religious (the 'piece of chalk', for example). The focus is on Chesterton's combinations of insight, hilarity and humility; the pieces are perfect illustrations.
I mentioned before that I usually dislike selections as compared to reading the original writings in context. In this selection, so many pieces came from 'Orthodoxy', that I could see the whole thing as a reminder of that excellent book. Furthermore, the last chapter about Chesterton's debate with Shaw on socialism and distributism is very insightful.
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