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[The following is an excerpt from Chesterton as Essayist: The Mirror of a Silver Age, a 1950 piece published anonymously in The Times Literary Supplement.]

To the young Chesterton, as to the young Dickens, the State was part, and a great part, of the organized injustice of society, and to invoke it was to seek to cast out Beelzebub by Beelzebub. If men were unjust and cruel when they had the advantage of economic superiority they could only be expected to be more unjust and more cruel when they had the much greater superiority conferred by political power: and, in fact, it could be taken for granted that the forces of oppression would come to an understanding among themselves, that the State would be the rich and the rich the State.

When you have money you can buy power. When you have power you can make money.

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