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Heretics

First published: 1905
Pages: 151

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Introductory Remarks
6:24
On the Importance of Orthodoxy
19:56
On the Negative Spirit
19:27
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
22:44
Mr. Bernard Shaw
20:39
Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
33:09
Christmas and the Esthetes
14:46
Omar and the Sacred Vine
15:08
The Mildness of the Yellow Press
21:32
The Moods of Mr. George Moore
10:19
On Sandals and Simplicity
11:10
Science and the Savages
16:19
Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
26:51
Celts and Celtophiles
11:13
On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
25:00
On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
28:16
On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
26:30
On the Wit of Whistler
19:09
The Fallacy of the Young Nation
29:44
Slum Novelists and the Slums
26:00
Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
31:23

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In these essays Chesterton takes on the leading thinkers of his day and cheerfully argues that most of them have their first principles wrong. He calls them heretics not as an insult but as a claim that a person's philosophy matters more than anything else about them, and he spars by name with George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and the followers of Nietzsche. Published in 1905, the book defends wonder, tradition, and ordinary human life against fashionable pessimism and cold notions of progress, all in Chesterton's trademark style of paradox and sudden common sense. It set the stage for his better-known Orthodoxy, written as its sequel. This free PDF and EPUB edition collects the complete essays.

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G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic, and Christian apologist famous for the Father Brown mysteries and sharp, paradox-loving essays. His playful intelligence made him one of the most quotable authors of his age.