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What's Wrong with the World

G. K. Chesterton

The work delves into various societal issues, with the author reflecting on the complexities of human nature, domesticity, education, and the roles of institutions.

"What's Wrong with the World" by G.K. Chesterton is a social critique. The work delves into various societal issues, with the author reflecting on the complexities of human nature, domesticity, education, and the roles of institutions.

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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. For this scheme of medical question and answer is a blunder; the first great blunder of sociology. It is always called stating the disease before we find the cure. But it is the whole definition and dignity of man that in social matters we must actually find the cure before we find the disease.

Contents

  1. 01Part One. The Homelessness of Man
  2. 02I. The Medical Mistake
  3. 03II. Wanted, an Unpractical Man
  4. 04III. The New Hypocrite
  5. 05IV. The Fear of the Past
  6. 06V. The Unfinished Temple
  7. 07VI. The Enemies of Property
  8. 08VII. The Free Family
  9. 09VIII. The Wildness of Domesticity
  10. 10IX. History of Hudge and Gudge
  11. 11X. Oppression by Optimism
  12. 12XI. The Homelessness of Jones
  13. 13Part Two. Imperialism, or the Mistake About Man
  14. 14I. The Charm of Jingoism
  15. 15II. Wisdom and the Weather
  16. 16III. The Common Vision
  17. 17IV. The Insane Necessity
  18. 18Part Three. Feminism, or the Mistake About Woman
  19. 19I. The Unmilitary Suffragette
  20. 20II. The Universal Stick
  21. 21III. The Emancipation of Domesticity
  22. 22IV. The Romance of Thrift
  23. 23V. The Coldness of Chloe
  24. 24VI. The Pedant and the Savage
  25. 25VII. The Modern Surrender of Woman
  26. 26VIII. The Brand of the Fleur-De-Lis
  27. 27IX. Sincerity and the Gallows
  28. 28X. The Higher Anarchy
  29. 29XI. The Queen and the Suffragettes
  30. 30XII. The Modern Slave
  31. 31Part Four. Education: Or the Mistake About the Child
  32. 32I. The Calvinism of to-Day
  33. 33II. The Tribal Terror
  34. 34III. The Tricks of Environment
  35. 35IV. The Truth About Education
  36. 36V. An Evil Cry
  37. 37VI. Authority the Unavoidable
  38. 38VII. The Humility of Mrs. Grundy
  39. 39VIII. The Broken Rainbow
  40. 40IX. The Need for Narrowness
  41. 41X. The Case for the Public Schools
  42. 42XI. The School for Hypocrites
  43. 43XII. The Staleness of the New Schools
  44. 44XIII. The Outlawed Parent
  45. 45XIV. Folly and Female Education
  46. 46Part Five. The Home of Man
  47. 47I. The Empire of the Insect
  48. 48II. The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand
  49. 49III. The Dreadful Duty of Gudge
  50. 50IV. A Last Instance
  51. 51V. Conclusion
  52. 52Three Notes
  53. 53I. On Female Suffrage
  54. 54II. On Cleanliness in Education
  55. 55III. On Peasant Proprietorship

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Author
G. K. Chesterton
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
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Length
188 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers