Orthodoxy

ORTHODOXY

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GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON

First published 1908
Reprinted 1908
Reprinted 1909
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Reprinted 1949
Reprinted 1957

Printed in Great Britain by
Bradford and Dickens, London
for The Bodley Head
10 Earlham Street, London, W.C.2

To

MY MOTHER

CONTENTS

I.	Introduction in Defence of Everything Else	1
II.	The Maniac	9
III.	The Suicide of Thought	38
IV.	The Ethics of Elfland	66
V.	The Flag of the World	103
VI.	The Paradoxes of Christianity	131
VII.	The Eternal Revolution	170
VIII.	The Romance of Orthodoxy	211
IX.	Authority and the Adventurer	241

ORTHODOXY

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