Heretics
Chesterton's brilliant critical work examining the philosophical assumptions of prominent modern thinkers and movements, arguing for the importance of orthodoxy and right belief. He critiques modern society's tendency to dismiss philosophical and theological questions as unimportant.
21 Chapters
Table of Contents
1
Source
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