What Chesterton was actually talking about was a reaction against liberal Protestantism in favour of more traditional Catholicism (represented e.g. by the "Oxford Movement" in the Church of England), against a prevailing tide in the direction of greater liberalism within Christianity and greater skepticism about Christianity.

So: not literally neoreaction, obviously, but something with a thing or two in common with neoreaction.

If RichardKennaway's meaning is "ha ha, Azathoth123 is using this as support for a neoreactionary view, when in fact Chesterton had something entirely different in mind" then I don't think that's altogether fair.

(I have no idea whether the people who have downvoted Richard did so because they thought he was saying that and that Chesterton really was talking about (something like) neoreaction, or because they thought he was actually claiming that Chesterton was talking about neoreaction when really he wasn't. This is one of the problems with downvoting as opposed to disagreeing. On the other hand, perhaps they downvoted because RK's comment could be taken either way with roughly equal plausibility and was therefore needlessly unclear.)