Heretics

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Essays & Short Works, Contemporary

Authors: G. K. Chesterton In Year : 1905

Book Language: English

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Introductory Remarks
On the Importance of Orthodoxy
On the Negative Spirit
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
Mr. Bernard Shaw
Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
Christmas and the Esthetes
Omar and the Sacred Vine
The Mildness of the Yellow Press
The Moods of Mr. George Moore
On Sandals and Simplicity
Science and the Savages
Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
Celts and Celtophiles
On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
On the Wit of Whistler
The Fallacy of the Young Nation
Slum Novelists and the Slums
Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no difficulty standing up for what he believed. He was one of the few journalists to oppose the Boer War. His 1922 "Eugenics and Other Evils" attacked what was at that time the most progressive of all ideas, the idea that the human race could and should breed a superior version of itself. In the Nazi experience, history demonstrated the wisdom of his once "reactionary" views.

Chesterton wrote several works of Christian apologetics, the best known of which are "Orthodoxy", "Heretics", and "The Everlasting Man". (Summary from Project Gutenberg)