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Overview
Chesterton gives his remarkably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues more relevant today than even in his own time. In his light and humorous style, yet deadly serious and philosophical, he comments on feminism and true womanhood, errors in education, the importance of the child and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters' assaults against the family.
Chesterton possessed the genius to foresee the dangers if modernist proposals were implemented. He knew that lax moral standards would lead to the dehumanization of man, and in this book he staunchly defends the family, its constituent elements and character over against those ideas and institutions that would subvert it and thereby deliver man into the hands of the servile state. In addressing what is wrong, he also shows clearly what is right, sane and sensible and how to change things in that direction.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781505449204 |
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| Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
| Publication date: | 12/10/2014 |
| Pages: | 136 |
| Sales rank: | 566,024 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.29(d) |
About the Author
Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.
Table of Contents
The Homelessness of Man
The Medical Mistake 3
Wanted, An Unpractical Man 7
The New Hypocrite 13
The Fear of the Past 19
The Unfinished Temple 27
The Enemies of Property 33
The Free Family 37
The Wildness of Domesticity 42
History of Hudge and Gudge 47
Oppression by Optimism 52
The Homelessness of Jones 55
Imperialism: Or the Mistake About Man
The Charm of Jingoism 61
Wisdom and the Weather 65
The Common Vision 72
The Insane Necessity 76
Feminism: Or the Mistake About Woman
The Unmilitary Suffragette 85
The Universal Stick 88
The Emancipation of Domesticity 95
The Romance of Thrift 101
The Coldness of Chloe 107
The Pedant and the Savage 112
The Modern Surrender of Woman 116
The Brand of the Fleur de Lys 119
Sincerity and the Gallows 123
The Higher Anarchy 126
The Queen and the Suffragettes 131
The Modern Slave 133
Education: Or theMistake About the Child
The Calvinism of To-day 139
The Tribal Terror 142
The Tricks of Environment 145
The Truth About Education 147
An Evil Cry 150
Authority the Unavoidable 153
The Humility of Mrs. Grundy 158
The Broken Rainbow 162
The Need for Narrowness 166
The Case for the Public Schools 169
The School for Hypocrites 175
The Staleness of the New Schools 181
The Outlawed Parent 185
Folly and Female Education 189
The Home of Man
The Empire of the Insect 195
The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand 202
The Dreadful Duty of Gudge 207
A Doubt 210
Conclusion 212