Packet 9: Tossup 15

This thinker wonders why we thank a man for passing the mustard without being thankful for the man himself in an essay on “gratitude.” This thinker wrote that “to isolate a thing [is] to identify it” in the essay “The Philosophy of the Islands.” This distributist posited that “the more hopeless is the situation the more hopeful” one must be, his “Paradox of Hope.” This “prince of paradox” criticized H. G. Wells’s The Outline of History with a rebuttal that inspired C. S. Lewis’s embrace of Christianity. This thinker posited that one should understand why a tradition was implemented before calling for its removal (10[1])in a parable named for his “fence.” This thinker documented his own religious beliefs in Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. For 10 points, name this British Catholic writer of apologetics who also wrote fiction featuring Father Brown. ■END■

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