"It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there."
— G. K. Chesterton

January 1, 1970

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Lecture at the University of Notre Dame (13 October 1930), as quoted in notes taken by Professor Richard Baker, of the University of Dayton, and published in The Chesterton Review (Winter/Spring 1977)