The Story Of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State that Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens

By Dale Ahlquist

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The Story Of The Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State that Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens

“We cannot free a thing from its own nature. We can only love a thing, and defend it for being itself and not something else. When any triangle loses one of its three sides, it stops being a triangle. There is no argument about this. The same logic applies if the triangle happens to be a family …”

So writes Dale Ahlquist in his "Prelude" to the The Story Of The Family in this remarkable collection of insights gathered from G.K. Chesterton's prolific and prophetic pen, who established his name as a champion of sanity in an insane society.

Though we shouldn't have to defend the ordinary, the fact is that our society has lost touch with the ordinary and appears to celebrate the aberrant. This is a book that makes a strong argument for the family, the magnificent tradition of man-woman love, marriage, parenthood, family life, and the home. Chesterton sharply contrasts these rooted realities with the trendy fallacies of divorce, contraception, and abortion, as well as the disturbing ideas infecting public education and the workplace.

Society starts with the family, it falls apart, if the family falls apart. As G.K. Chesterton says: “The first things must be the very fountains of life, love and birth and babyhood; and these are always covered fountains, flowing in the quiet courts of the home.”