You're correct that I went a bit further than Chesterton himself did. But not a lot further. By the way, I linked to the wrong Wikipedia entry. The one I link

You're correct that I went a bit further than Chesterton himself did. But not a lot further. By the way, I linked to the wrong Wikipedia entry. The one I linked to (and that you found the strange quote in) appears to be an internal document, explaining the principle of Chesterton's Fence to would-be Wikipedia editors. I should have linked to the Wikipedia article instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton.27s_fence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton.27...