Duh, you pass. Probably not an involved enough test, indeed. And Chesterton was quite a bit more complicated than that:
“Those who will not even admit the Capitalist problem deserve to get the Bolshevist solution”
“Even anarchy on the right side is better than order on the wrong side.”
“Edmund Burke said it was impossible to draw up an indictment against a whole nation; but Edmund Burke detested the very idea of democracy. If Burke did not want the populace taken up as a criminal, it was simply because he did want it permanently taken care of as a lunatic.”
“It is obvious that a revolution, like a war, is never right except when it is indispensable.”
“An intelligent Conservative is not one who wishes to conserve things just as they are, for they never remain just as they are. An intelligent Conservative is one who believes our society is such that it can safely be left to evolve. An intelligent Revolutionist is not one who wishes to revolve; he is one who wishes to construct—and therefore to destroy.”
Duh, you pass. Probably not an involved enough test, indeed. And Chesterton was quite a bit more complicated than that: