a man who saw the sickness of his society far more clearly than the ordinary Liberal and felt it far more deeply than the self-confident Fabian social engineers. Unfortunately, though, a sense of outrage often proved as bad a counsellor in his case as it had done in Carlyle's. His diatribes against usury and corruption were those of a man on the edge of hysteria; his anti-semitism was an illness. Despite this, his fundamental decency is never obscured for long. He hated oppression; he belonged to the world before totalitarianism. But the positive side of his politics – Distributism, peasant smallholdings, Merrie Englandism – led him into a hopeless cul-de-sac." Chesterton, however, opposed all forms of persecution of Jews and all violent anti-semitism. In 1934, after the Nazi Party took power in Germany he wrote that: References The Outline of Sanity (1926) G. K. Chesterton GK's: A Miscellany of the First 500 Issues of G.K.'s Weekly (1934) G. K.'s Weekly, a Sampler (1986) editor Lyle W. Dorsett G. K.'s Weekly: An Appraisal (1990) Brocard Sewell Notes G. K. Chesterton Weekly newspapers published in the United Kingdom Publications established in 1925 Publications disestablished in 1936 Defunct newspapers published in the United Kingdom Antisemitism in literature Antisemitism in the United Kingdom Distributism