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What's Wrong with the World — G. K. Chesterton

What's Wrong with the World

G. K. Chesterton

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 144 pages

What's Wrong with the World is a collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton on social and moral questions. Writing with paradox and wit, he examines family, education, politics, and reform, asking where modern society has gone astray. It is worth hearing for its lively arguments and commonsense reflections.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WORLD
  2. PART ONE. THE HOMELESSNESS OF MAN
  3. I. THE MEDICAL MISTAKE
  4. II. WANTED, AN UNPRACTICAL MAN
  5. III. THE NEW HYPOCRITE
  6. IV. THE FEAR OF THE PAST
  7. V. THE UNFINISHED TEMPLE
  8. VI. THE ENEMIES OF PROPERTY
  9. VII. THE FREE FAMILY
  10. VIII. THE WILDNESS OF DOMESTICITY
  11. IX. HISTORY OF HUDGE AND GUDGE
  12. X. OPPRESSION BY OPTIMISM
  13. XI. THE HOMELESSNESS OF JONES
  14. PART TWO. IMPERIALISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT MAN
  15. I. THE CHARM OF JINGOISM
  16. II. WISDOM AND THE WEATHER
  17. III. THE COMMON VISION
  18. IV. THE INSANE NECESSITY
  19. PART THREE. FEMINISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT WOMAN
  20. I. THE UNMILITARY SUFFRAGETTE
  21. II. THE UNIVERSAL STICK
  22. III. THE EMANCIPATION OF DOMESTICITY
  23. IV. THE ROMANCE OF THRIFT
  24. V. THE COLDNESS OF CHLOE
  25. VI. THE PEDANT AND THE SAVAGE
  26. VII. THE MODERN SURRENDER OF WOMAN
  27. VIII. THE BRAND OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS
  28. IX. SINCERITY AND THE GALLOWS
  29. X. THE HIGHER ANARCHY
  30. XI. THE QUEEN AND THE SUFFRAGETTES

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