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Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton.(Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 19990322
Author:Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A.

Joseph Pearce. Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton. San Francisco: Ignatius P, 1996. xiv + 522 pp. $29.95.

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1935) has a memorable, if not outstanding place in the history of English social thought. As Pearce's new biography of Chesterton suggests, he himself would probably reject the label of "utopianist"; indeed he was explicitly suspicious of so-called Utopias as fantastical, unrealistic, ineffective. His words against them, dating from the mid-twenties, are strong: "England has taken refuge in Utopia after Utopia of ever-mounting ...

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