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An illuminatlug address on the life of the late G. K. Ches- terton, one of Britain's most picturesque and famous authors, was given by the Rev. Fr. T. J. Sheridan, S.J., before the English Association meeling yesterday evening at the Helena May In-- stitute. The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall presided,

In the course of his address Father Sheridan said:--

bursts of laughter. Let us begin from the beginning. -

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HAPPY CHILDHOOD Chesterton's childhood was huppy one in which nothing worse. can qe said of him than that he quoted poetry. His time at school was very ordinary.

It was at the close of his school days and his entry into an art school that Chesterton went, na he says. mad. An art school is much the

There are so many aides to! Chesterton that I could, and per- haps should, have chosen one that would ruffle nobody, Autter no prejudices, disturb no convictions. But I have not done this. I shall try to give you Chesterton as belleve he was, the whole man and not bits of him-and as such he was dearly loved and heartily disliked by large sections of his

same as a university, English public. And because of You do not learn anything at lec- this, you too will like at least ares but you have unrivalled op- some of the things he stood for portunities for talking and think- and you may equally dislike muching, Chesterton mat the usual that he set his life to diseminate blackguards that run in the van and defend. It laleminently ft- of anything labelled "artistic”; ting that any discussion of Ches- "and the thin coat of moral dis- terton should end in controversy.

temper that passed for religion He was never out of controversy was shed in large flakes. He be- and commenced to argue as soon

gan to Bounder. He WRJ a boy as his brother Cecli knew enough wandering around seeking a lost strong language to develop an

soul-his own. Remember that i he was anythng at this period be argument,

was an absent-minded lad given to thought. Anyhow he' was cer tainly not an athlete. His one series of efforts to ride a bicycle ended in disaster for more than his Thinking wILS the bicycle. only serious recreation:

This paper is called an adven- ture because his struggle through the current heresies to a belleg in reason and in God holds many of the thrills and not a few of the dangers, though in the intellectual order, of any of the swashbuckling tales of the Spanish Main. I have

purposely chosen, a rollicking kind of adventure to liken to Chester- ton's because his fight for sanity and religion never moved with the solemnity of Newman's, although it passed through many of the same critical stages. And now be- fore the dissection begins let me Introduce you to the man,

HIS EARLY IDOLS

A poet, a pamphleteer, a histor- lan, 2 novellit, an artist, a philoso- pher, but most of all a journal- ist. Chesterton has split lances or taken sides with the ablest writeri of his time. Stevenson and Dickens were his early Idols. SI Edmund Gosse, Maurice Baring. Max Beerbohm. Walter De la Mare were his friends. Shaw and Yeats and Wells were his be- loved, enemies. Dean Inge was less Deloved. Mencken and T. S. Eliot have fought him and liked it. Belloc was so close in thought and aspiration that Shaw has un- earthed

mediaeval monster

which he dübs the Chesterbelloc and which he attacks when, no. one else 18 disagreeing with him. Debate and controversy then found him at his best. And through them all rushed great gusts of heartening laughter that stole the venom from his sharpest retorts.

It can be said of Chesterton that he never lost a friend and «eidom kept an enemy. For he never attacked the man but only che state of mind. For this he was so loved in Fleet Street that recently when he died some of the greatest papers donned mourning. But between that event and 1874 streiches the life of a man.

Four years after the death of Dickens, in the reign of Disraeli Chesterton was born.

MILES OF WRITING

It took years of argumentation. miles of writing and journey through the valley of doubt be- fore he could pronounce with con-

viction the words for the Apostles' Creed. For Chesterton was born

at the end of a period when the reaction was setting in. He was

AN IDEALIST Chesterton at the age of twenty had become an Idealist or, as he will insist, was suffering from a minor attack of funacy, yet this was already a revolt against the current atheism. The atheist sald that there was nothing but mat- ter: Chesterton suspected that Such there was nothing but mind,

a philosophy a thousand times worse than solitary confinement and utterly at variance with ex- perience, was too sterile to hold such an intensely active intellect for long. He revolted agathat the Jogle of his position and invented a wild but workable theory, that existence, even it were a pro- lection of oneself, a dream, was extraordinary

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citing. He meant that the mere fact of being alive was so much to be thankful for, that we had a duty to be happy about it. soon had an admiring following of faddists and a strong temptation to become an hereslarch. It was in this spirit then that he began to write: and the decadents and pessimists who thought to rule the culture of the age soon recognised an enemy.

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He has passed through two the devil and that left the will Here was a philosophy "that stages: from Idealism to an art-free. ficial Optimism. The rest of his put reason on a firm foundation. TERMS-CASE ON DELIVERY. adventure would involve the and- No wonder Chesterton was grate- ing of a philosophy that could re-ful. The extent of his gratitude concile mind with matter and the

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Thomas placing of his optimism on a frm

Aquinas" and notes the gusto of foundation.

the writing and the humility, of a great mind before a greater. This is one of his finest books and philosophically it is the last chap- ter in his adventures.,

To indicate his progress in the solution of these two problems it

will be briefer and perhaps clearer to state the problems as he saw them and given shortly his solu- tlons. To him, the young Idealist with a love for his fellow-men, the first problem was: "Is there any thing except the mind, my mind?" Is the mind purely creative in the sense that It paints pictures on the windows and then mistakes them for the landscape outside, that it takes dreams for reality?

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And now we must move back little in time to show his slow progress in the solution of that parallel dificulty: how to put optimism on a firm foundation Prompted by his feelings, he had assumed what he did not logically believe, that we should be happy because we are. He did not deny It was a strange theory yet, ke the danger of this assumption

even madder theories, he and in one of his Father Brown Memorial in honour of Mark many

he relates the "school of stories seven years old when Carlyle and thought" defended it: Chesterton of a man famous for hits laughter Disraeli died. He was still a boy had been driven to it by his horror who died by his own hand be- The of the other extreme, materialiam. cause he could not act any longer at the death of Browning. year Wilde was sent to prison The materialists said that there the farce of outward happiness Chesterton came of age. Although was nothing but matter; no god, when atheism had taken from him no soul. They said that the mind the foundations even of hope. It there is not recorded connection.

was material, that like a superior was not atheism that gave Chess between the events, Ruskin died when Chesterton published his piece of blottng-paper. It absorbed "terton difficulty in founding his first book. In the following year what the senses presented and optimism: it was the charity of Victorianism came historically to then shot that forth like a super- his mind. Sham and humbug fell Chester easily before him and he lost in an end.. leaving an unfinished Boerne sausage-machine. War and a spirit of moral revolt ton would not believe this. That rapid succession the golden llu- that soon degenerated into way lay atheism, determinism and, slona of youth. Like the hero of his book by the same name, he scepticism and irreligion. It was

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DEATH OF SIR E. DELLER Principal Of London University

a strange world in which to seek the other extreme in the headlong became "The Man who Knew Too Much." The rory fable that poll- the truth. But into it Chesterton | fashion of youth. plunged heartily and

It was not until years later tics was free from corruption, did

from not deceive him long. when he had wandered known in literary circles

London, Nov. 20. strange young maker of paradoxes Berkeley to Hoxley, and from heightened praises of beauty did

Br Edwin Deller, Principal of the who laughingly defended optimism Huxley to Spencer; with unsatis not blind him to the low beast London University since 1929, who and homely things.

In the was severely injured in an acci Не was factory expeditions into Heget liness of the aesthetes. charitably chaffed for saying what and Kant, that he came suddenly grinding industrialism that was dent last week while inspecting he could not possibly mean; and, on Aristotle. It was Aristotle, hailed as England's glory he saw the progress of the new University then he was more sharply cr baptised

clarified by St. only England's shame. In the building in promotion of a scheme ticised when it was discovered that Thomas Aquinas, that fell into his socialism that was to save Eng-for which he had worked inde- He had heard it spoken land from the slavery of Capitalism fatigably, died from his injuries he did really mean it. Critics and hands. the criticised, began to feel pain- of as Scholastic Philosophy but he could see only a shifting of the in hospital to-day, aged 83.

Bir Edwin had been ssociated fully that his paradoxes were not with the reverence one has for control from the hands of a few mere verbal juggling. But before the dead. But on first opening St.nanciers into the hands of a few with the administration of Lon- he reached that position it is Thomas he must have emitted a civil servants. He saw doubtful don University for a great many necessary to follow his mind great roar that may have meant business magnates buying "blus years, and was Academic Registrar

he through two weird stages of deve- "Eureka" for here in a musty tome blood" at high prices and lopment that are essential to an lay the solution to all his dit swore. He could not close his eyes understanding of his startling out-cnitles.” Here was a philosopher (Continued on Page 17)

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