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  "title": "Street’s friendly objection, and a compressed quotation",
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      "exact": "\"I will begin to worry about my philosophy,\" said Mr. Street, \"when Mr. Chesterton has given us his.\"",
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  "body_markdown": "The available transcription of G. S. Street’s review, headed ‘Mr. Chesterton’ and dated *The Outlook*, 17 June 1905, reads: ‘I shall not begin to worry about my philosophy of life until Mr. Chesterton discloses his.’ Chesterton preserves the challenge but compresses and recasts its wording.\n\nStreet’s objection was more pointed than a request for additional information: Chesterton insisted that doctrine mattered above everything, yet left his own indistinct. Street also explicitly rejected that estimate of doctrine’s importance. This was nevertheless a friendly review, admiring Chesterton’s intellectual energy and originality. The duel metaphor therefore turns an appreciative critic’s demand for consistency into a public obligation to answer.\n\nThe review is accessible here through a modern transcription; its newspaper date and wording have not been checked against an original page image. [Read Street’s review](https://chestertonwritings.blogspot.com/2012/09/mr-chesterton-by-gs-street.html).",
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        "question": "What does the demand for a cosmic theory mean in Heretics, and what obligation does it create for this opening?"
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