Chesterton's now classic romantic "Orthodoxy" is a personal and universal defense of common sense, the deep meaning of human existence, democracy and the noble mission of Western civilization. His entertaining and cheerful polemic with the morbid decay worlds of the time, which have increased in the hundred years since it was written, is a guide to an active, adventurous and colorful life full of fantasy. The master of paradox talks about "the need to connect the familiar with the unknown (with mystery) and to look at the world in such a way that we simultaneously feel a sense of wonder, gift and welcome." If a person has the right mission in life, every day becomes an adventure, the everyday a miracle, and seemingly small things grow to heavenly heights.
Like a detective, Chesterton methodically searches for the cause of psychologically sustainable joy in life, which can only come from a certain faith, just as all pessimism comes from unbelief.
In the new, concise and contemporary translation, the author's gigantic life energy sounds full.