Chesterton remains a colossal figure, even if he had feet of clay

When I was a teenager, the upper floor of Green’s bookshop near Trinity College Dublin had a section devoted to books on religion – those were the days – and within it an entire area given to Chesterton/Belloc, where I would browse every time.

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