Heretics de G. K. Chesterton

Heretics

G. K. Chesterton

Complete edition of Heretics by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton discusses ideas by H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Kipling and others of his day in his argument for God. Still thought provoking after 100 years, find out why in this complete reproduction of the 1905 British Edition. Deep common sense on every page, it includes great thoughts such as these: "The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas." Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ORTHODOXY 3 2. ON THE NEGATIVE SPIRIT 6 3. ON MR. RUDYARD KIPLING AND MAKING THE WORLD SMALL 10 4. MR. BERNARD SHAW 14 5. MR. H.G. WELLS AND THE GIANTS 18 6. CHRISTMAS AND THE AESTHETES 25 7. OMAR AND THE SACRED VINE 28 8. THE MILDNESS OF THE YELLOW PRESS 31 9. THE MOODS OF MR. GEORGE MOORE 35 10. ON SANDALS AND SIMPLICITY 37 11. SCIENCE AND THE SAVAGES 39 12. PAGANISM AND MR. LOWES DICKINSON 42 13. CELTS AND CELTOPHILES 47 14. ON CERTAIN MODERN WRITERS AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY 49 15. ON SMART NOVELISTS AND THE SMART SET 53 16. ON MR. MCCABE AND A DIVINE FRIVOLITY 59 17. ON THE WIT OF WHISTLER 64 18. THE FALLACY OF THE YOUNG NATION 68 19. SLUM NOVELISTS AND THE SLUMS 73 20. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ORTHODOXY 78

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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He is best known in mystery circles as the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Often referred to as "the prince of paradox," Chesterton frequently made his points by turning familiar sayings and proverbs inside out. Chesterton attended the Slade School of Art, a department of University College London, where he took classes in illustration and literature, though he did not complete a degree in either subject. In 1895, at the age of twenty-one, he began working for the London publisher George Redway. A year later he moved to another publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, where he undertook his first work in journalism, illustration, and literary criticism. In addition to writing fifty-three Father Brown stories, Chesterton authored articles and books of social criticism, philosophy, theology, economics, literary criticism, biography, and poetry.