The thing I have to say is this (I could not have said it before your step: I can say so now. Before it would have been like a selected pleading.) The Catholic Church is the exponent of Reality. It is true. Its doctrines in matters large and small are statements of what is. […] My conclusion—and that of all men who have ever once seen it—is the Faith: Corporate, Organised, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
Excerpt of a letter from Belloc to Chesterton after the latter’s Reception
Tremendous Trifles 
October 1, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Oh, Belloc is such a pin-up in that photo.
And look, thin Chesterton!
October 1, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I am sorry, that was a massively flippant comment.
It’s so true, what Belloc says. Everything else is just a waste of time.
October 2, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Flippant? Yikes, if that was a flippant comment, dear Berrers, what must most of my posts seem? 😉
Quite striking was old Hilaire in them days – I’ve got that photie of him at one end of my sitting-room mantlepiece, and this one at the other. Big, bright, blunt bludgeon for the Faith he was too.
With a row-ti-tow!
B(elloc) ª(dulator)
January 11, 2009 at 9:09 am
Its interesting. I have just discovered this man’s existence in history and literary history. However, every great poster child for nouveau or rediscovered philisophical prose is subject great analyis. He left a great quote that got me a great grade in one of my teaching classes, ”
Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine to convey some general view of life, it is not education at all” (G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man). Just commenting…Christina the United States.