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C. Creighton Mandell. Hilaire Belloc, the Man and His Work
Hilaire Belloc, the Man and His Work
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INTRODUCTION. BY. G. K. CHESTERTON
HILAIRE BELLOC
CHAPTER I
MR. BELLOC AND THE PUBLIC
A CASE FOR LEGISLATION AD HOC
CHAPTER II
MR. BELLOC THE MAN
CHAPTER III
PERSONALITY IN STYLE
CHAPTER IV
THE POET
CHAPTER V
THE STUDENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER VI
MR. BELLOC AND THE WAR
CHAPTER VII
MR. BELLOC THE PUBLICIST
CHAPTER VIII
MR. BELLOC AND EUROPE
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX
THE HISTORICAL WRITER
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER X
MR. BELLOC AND ENGLAND
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI
THE REFORMER
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XII
THE HUMORIST
CHAPTER XIII
THE TRAVELLER
CHAPTER XIV
MR. BELLOC AND THE FUTURE
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C. Creighton Mandell, Edward Shanks
Published by Good Press, 2019
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There are but one or two examples of cases in which men of different types came to a partial knowledge of Mr. Belloc and his work through their sympathy with the views he expressed. But far beyond and above the appeal which Mr. Belloc has made on occasion to the political and historical sense of his readers is the appeal which he has made consistently to their literary sense in The Path to Rome, in The Four Men, in Avril, in The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, in Esto Perpetua—in his novels, his essays, his poems. If many have been attracted by his views, how many more have been influenced by his expression of them?
"A man desiring to influence his fellowmen," says Mr. Belloc, in The French Revolution, "has two co-related instruments at his disposal. … These two instruments are his idea and his style. However powerful, native, sympathetic to his hearers' mood or cogently provable by reference to new things may be a man's idea, he cannot persuade his fellowmen to it if he have not words that express it. And he will persuade them more and more in proportion as his words are well-chosen and in the right order, such order being determined by the genius of the language from which they are drawn."
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