Heretics

About this book

A collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1905, three years before Orthodoxy. Chesterton takes up the popular philosophies and public men of his day, its writers, reformers, and fashionable ideas, and tests them against Christian orthodoxy with wit and good humor. A lively defense of definite doctrine in an age that prized vagueness.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. I. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
3. II. On the negative spirit
4. III. On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small 🔒
5. IV. Mr. Bernard Shaw 🔒
6. V. Mr. H.G. Wells and the Giants 🔒
7. VI. Christmas and the Aesthetes 🔒
8. VII. Omar and the Sacred Vine 🔒
9. VIII. The Mildness of the Yellow Press 🔒
10. IX. The Moods of Mr. George Moore 🔒
11. X. On Sandals and Simplicity 🔒
12. XI. Science and the Savages 🔒
13. XII. Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson 🔒
14. XIII. Celts and Celtophiles 🔒
15. XIV. On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family 🔒
16. XV. On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set 🔒
17. XVI. On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity 🔒
18. XVII. On the Wit of Whistler 🔒
19. XVIII. The Fallacy of the Young Nation 🔒
20. XIX. Slum Novelists and the Slums 🔒
21. XX. Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 🔒