ANSWER TO JOHN CORT Dorothy Day

One of the saddest things about this whole controversy is that our opponents look upon agrarianism as visionary. Here is what Chesterton said about such a criticism:

THEY SAY IT (THE PEASANT SOCIETY) IS UTOPIAN, AND THEY ARE RIGHT. THEY SAY IT IS IDEALISTIC, AND THEY ARE RIGHT. THEY SAY IT IS QUIXOTIC, AND THEY ARE RIGHT. IT DESERVES EVERY NAME THAT WILL INDICATE HOW COMPLETELY THEY HAVE DRIVEN JUSTICE OUT OF THE WORLD; EVERY NAME THAT MEASURE HOW REMOTE FROM THEM AND THEIR SORT IS THE STANDARD OF HONORABLE LIVING; EVERY NAME THAT WILL EMPHASIZE AND REPEAT THE FACT THAT PROPERTY AND LIBERTY ARE SUNDERED FROM THEM AND THEIRS, BY AN ABYSS BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL.¹⁰

G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity (London : Dodd & Mead, 1937).

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