Chesterton's Essay 'Fancies Vs. Fads'

The subjects of progress and growth are often confused to be the same thing, but if anyone would know the difference between them, it’d be someone with more than enough experience with both of them such as G.K Chesterton. Chesterton was raised in London where he was well-educated and had the opportunity of pursuing his passions in art and writing. An advocate for the common man, he wrote hundreds of woks and contributed them to magazines and newspapers. Chesterton was met with many opportunities to progress and grow in his life, thereby validating his insight on the subjects. In his essay, “Fancies vs. Fads”, he defines progress as a “fatal metaphor” that entails “leaving things behind” and growth as a “real idea” that means “leaving things inside us” and claims that progress makes growth more difficult to understand. I agree that such
It is possible to leave values behind, but if the spaces left by the removal of those values are not filled with new ideas, growth doesn't occur. Racism against “minority” groups in the United States has been prevalent all throughout history because of the popular belief that whites are superior. Progress was made through such laws as the Civil Rights Acts and the Emancipation Proclamation to discourage is belief, but did growth really occur? Sure, whites left their beliefs inside of them, but they didn't allow those beliefs to be grow and be nurtured by new information and therefore didn’t grow as people either. All in all, progress and growth are not interchangeable and have very different impacts on a life. Progress, like Chesterton claims, is leaving something behind, while growth is keeping things inside. I agree with this, and add to it that in order to truly growth, you also need to revise what you keep inside in order to stay relevant. Progress can be made without growth simply by following