What's Wrong with the World

by G. K. Chesterton

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:	9781613822142
Publisher:	Simon & Brown
Publication date:	12/13/2011
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

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