MR. CHESTERTON AS HISTORIAN
Sir, —Your literary critic, "Liber," inakes a slip in last Saturday's "Books and Authors, ,, and through the mistake is led to draw a strange inference. Referring to "Mr. Cliesterton as a historian," he Bays that "G.K." is a Catholic. This is the slip, for Mr. Chesterton is not a Catholic. But it is the inference which makes strange reading: "The author's conversion to ■Roman Catholicism has • evidently influenced some of his judgments." Does "Liber" really mean that .Catholicism ! perverts a man's judgments and make j him say that black is white or red is blue? ■ Or. does he wish to arguo that religion in general influences a man's judgments, and-that one has to be.en Atheist to be impartial?—l am, etc., . LITTERAE..
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 171, 9 April 1918, Page 7
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