Notes: G. K. Chesterton, his ideas and his character, by Joseph de Tonquédec

I am prepared, if one wishes, to compare Chesterton to a turtle or a rhinoceros; but to “a butterfly drunk on the sun”, why? M. de Tonquédec took great pains to pursue a thought, the flight of which, he says, is bizarre. Why didn't he abandon it? It was cruel to hand Chesterton over to the author of An Easy Proof of the Existence of God.

Read the original text published in the NRf from January 1921