I was asked about Chesterton’s round-about method.  Another way of looking at it is that Chesterton is not responding so much to facts that are wrong---although he responds to them along the way---but to a wrong Gestalt (big picture of the world).  It is not just the people’s individual facts and ideas are wrong.  It is that even when they have the facts right, they put them together into a very wrong “big picture”. One of the Church Fathers had an analogy of heretics taking the tiles of a lovely mosaic and rearranging them into a dog.   The little pieces are not tampered with---but the big picture has been completely changed from the one produced by the Divine Artist.