Books, Arts & Manners: Mens Magna in Corpore Magno

As I Was Saying: A Chesterton Reader, edited by Robert Knille (Eerdmans, 314 pp., $18.95)

The greatness of the greatest English literature is that it is not merely or mainly English, but that it is the aqueduct over and through which passes the living water of the humane and Godly tradition. One of the greatest of English writers, G. K. Chesterton, wrote: “The problem of an enduring ethic and culture consists in finding an arrangement of the pieces by which they remain related, as do the stones arranged in an arch. And I know only one scheme that has thus proved its solidity, bestriding lands and ages with its gigantic arches, and carrying everywhere the high river of baptism upon an aqueduct of Rome.”

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M.D. Aeschliman

M.D. Aeschliman is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and author of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism (3rd English-language ed., Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2019 and French-language rev. ed., Paris: Pierre Téqui, 2020).

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As I Was Saying: A Chesterton Reader, edited by Robert Knille (Eerdmans, 314 pp., $18.95)

The greatness of the greatest English literature is that it is not merely or mainly English, but that it is the aqueduct over and through which passes the living water of the humane and Godly tradition. One of the greatest of English writers, G. K. Chesterton, wrote: “The problem of an enduring ethic and culture consists in finding an arrangement of the pieces by which they remain related, as do the stones arranged in an arch. And I know only one scheme that has thus proved its solidity, bestriding lands and ages with its gigantic arches, and carrying everywhere the high river of baptism upon an aqueduct of Rome.”

About the Author

M.D. Aeschliman

M.D. Aeschliman is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and author of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism (3rd English-language ed., Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2019 and French-language rev. ed., Paris: Pierre Téqui, 2020).