GK CHESTERTON; Died 14th JUNE 1936
GK CHESTERTON Died 14th JUNE 1936 The Wise Men Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain, That we may lose the way. GK Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, the son of Marie Louise, née Grosjean, and Edward Chesterton (1841–1922) and died on this day 1936. He was baptised into the Church of England, though his family themselves were irregularly practising Unitarians. (1) His intellectual curiosity led him to dabble in different beliefs, including the occult, Spiritualism and atheism. His later perspective on the human condition was reflected in his observation that “all the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit into the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.” (2) His comment on the anti-Catholic accounts he absorbed as a young man and which he unquestioningly (at lea