Wow that was bad. Chesterton is the master of the pithy statement; unfortunately his ability to construct larger arguments is non-extistent. I have read some of Chesterton's other works that had been recommended to me and was always ill-struck by his misanthropic views and bluster. I read this because C.S. Lewis cites the book as one of the reasons for his conversion. I now understand. Chesterton's writing is as unnecessarily convoluted and filled with specious reasoning as Lewis' Mere Christianity--a book I have read a few times in the past 40years and always end up thinking "What the f*ck was that incoherent rambling about". I'll add that I am well read in Christian literature, history, and art. There is no part of his argument that was confusing to me. He simply doesn't make his point. It is also obvious that he doesn't understand the Theory of Evolution at all. If current Christians are reading this book, hopefully they have enough knowledge of science to see that his evolution arguments are off-base because he doesn't comprehend the theory.