“It is true that I believe in fairy tales — in the sense that I marvel so much at what does exist that I am readier to admit what might.” So commented G.K. Chesterton in his 1926 book, The Outline of Sanity. He then described a fairy tale of his own creation: restoration in 20th-century England of a peasant class, composed of independent families working on their own plots of land and supported by a vibrant rural culture. If already deemed a fairy tale in the England of 90 ye…
