What's Wrong with the World

What's Wrong with the World

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

What's Wrong with the World

by G. K. Chesterton

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Overview

A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat sharply defined. It begins as a rule with an analysis, with statistics, tables of population, decrease of crime among Congregationalists, growth of hysteria among policemen, and similar ascertained facts; it ends with a chapter that is generally called "The Remedy." It is almost wholly due to this careful, solid, and scientific method that "The Remedy" is never found. (excerpt from "What's Wrong with the World")

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781604505825
Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLC
Publication date: 11/20/2008
Pages: 156
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

About The Author
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was one of the most beloved and prolific authors of the twentieth century, best known for his works Father Brown, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, and The Man Who Was Thursday.  

Table of Contents

Foreword Sohrab Ahmari ix

Dedication xv

Part 1 The Homelessness of Man

I The Medical Mistake 5

II Wanted, An Unpractical Man 9

III The New Hypocrite 15

IV The Fear of the Past 21

V The Unfinished Temple 29

VI The Enemies of Property 35

VII The Free Family 39

VIII The Wildness of Domesticity 43

IX History of Hudge and Gudge 47

X Oppression by Optimism 53

XI The Homelessness of Jones 57

Part 2 Imperialism, or the Mistake about Man

I The Charm of jingoism 63

II Wisdom and the Weather 67

III The Common Vision 73

IV The Insane Necessity 77

Part 36 Feminism, or the Mistake about Woman

I The Unmilitary Suffragette 87

II The Universal Stick 91

III The Emancipation of Domesticity 97

IV The Romance of Thrift 103

V The Coldness of Chloe 109

VI The Pedant and the Savage 115

VII The Modern Surrender of Woman 119

VIII The Brand of the Fleur-de-Lis 123

IX Sincerity and the Gallows 127

X The Higher Anarchy 131

XI The Queen and the Suffragettes 135

XII The Modern Slave 137

Part 4 Education, or the Mistake about the Child

I The Calvinism of Today 143

II The Tribal Terror 147

III The Tricks of Environment 151

IV The Truth about Education 153

V An Evil Cry 157

VI Authority the Unavoidable 161

VII The Humility of Mrs. Grundy 167

VIII The Broken Rainbow 171

IX The Need for Narrowness 175

X The Case for the Public Schools 179

XI The School for Hypocrites 185

XII The Staleness of the New Schools 191

XIII The Outlawed Parent 195

XIV Folly and Female Education 199

Part 5 The Home of Man

I The Empire of the Insect 205

II The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand 213

III The Dreadful Duty of Gudge 219

IV A Last Instance 223

V Conclusion 225

Three Notes

I On Female Suffrage 233

II On Cleanliness in Education 235

III On Peasant Proprietorship 237

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