Though I am too busy these weeks to read much, Chesterton's thought is often coming to mind. I frequently find myself saying that Chesterton would say this or that about some subject.
Sometimes, there is no one like Chesterton to put things in perspective. In chapter XIV of 'The flying inn', we encounter 'the poet of the birds'. He is driven around by his driver when he sees two people with a donkey cart. He immediately starts: "You are overloading that animal". While he is in a long discussion about property, we encounter his driver. It appears that this poor man has not eaten all day, because he had to be ready whenever the poet wanted to continue his journey. The poet had forgotten the one creature 'whom man has always found it easiest to forget, since the hour he forgot God in a garden'.
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