# Charles Dickens: A critical study

Author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68682

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Charles+Dickens%3A+A+critical+study+Chesterton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this, that we confuse the word “indefinable” with the word “vague.” If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as “indefinable” we promptly picture something misty, a cloud with indeterminate edges. But this is an error even in common-place logic. The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. It is our arms and legs, our pots and pans, that are indefinable. The indefinable is the indisputable. The man next door is indefinable, because he is too actual to be defined. And there are some to whom spiritual things have the same fierce and practical proximity; some to whom God is too actual to b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/charles-dickens-a-critical-study-68682/chapters/12/index.md)