What would we do without Ignatius Press? We'd certainly not have as many of Chesterton's books and essays available as we currently do. I'm not sure how I stumbled upon it, but recently I discovered "Platitudes Undone". According to Amazon.com, "This little book is a facsimile of a personal copy of a privately published edition of Holbrook Jackson's Platitudes in the Making (1911), given to G.K. Chesterton by the author, and containing Chesterton's handwritten notes in the margins and between lines."
What fun to read. One platitude, among the many, that made me smile, given all the Relativists I know, is: "No opinion matters finally: except your own." and Chesterton's note: "said the man who thought he was rabbit." Perhaps this can serve as a discussion starter at the next meeting of the Chillicothe Chesterton Society. We'll see.
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