Preface

IT is proposed from time to time to publish Addresses given to the I.D.K. Club, and also Essays, when it is felt they have some permanent or general interest. The Club is not committed to any sect or political party; it offers, in fact, a free arena for every sort of opinion, being concerned with the study of everything which may interest or benefit mankind.

Mr. Chesterton has kindly allowed us to open this series with his lecture, “The Superstitions of the Sceptic’’; and this volume is printed from a shorthand verbatim report, together with a _ correspondence between the author and Mr. Coulton, the latter part by kind permission of The Cambridge Review, in whose — columns the correspondence appeared.

The remarks which were concerned merely with the particular occasion and place of the delivery of the lecture have been omitted.

AUSTIN H. JOHNSON.

CAMBRIDGE, February, 1925.