What's Wrong With the World

1 To C. F G. Masterman, M. P. 2 A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat sharply 3 There is a popular philosophical joke intended to typify the endless 4 But this new cloudy political cowardice has rendered useless the old 5 The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the 6 The task of modern idealists indeed is made much too easy for them by 7 But it is for this especial reason that such an explanation is 8 As I have said, I propose to take only one central instance; I will 9 In the course of this crude study we shall have to touch on what is 10 There is, let us say, a certain filthy rookery in Hoxton, dripping with 11 But we are not here concerned with the nature and existence of the 12 Thus the Future of which we spoke at the beginning has (in England at 13 I have cast about widely to find a title for this section; and I 14 It is admitted, one may hope, that common things are never commonplace. 15 Now this masculine love of an open and level camaraderie is the life 16 The common conception among the dregs of Darwinian culture is that men 17 It will be better to adopt in this chapter the same process that 18 Cast your eye round the room in which you sit, and select some three or 19 And it should be remarked in passing that this force upon a man to 20 The larger part of womankind, however, have had to fight for things 21 We hear much of the human error which accepts what is sham and what is 22 We say then that the female holds up with two strong arms these two 23 But in this corner called England, at this end of the century, there 24 Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and 25 When, therefore, it is said that the tradition against Female Suffrage 26 But there is a further fact; forgotten also because we moderns forget 27 But, indeed, with this educational matter I must of necessity embroil 28 Now I have only taken the test case of Female Suffrage because it is 29 When I wrote a little volume on my friend Mr. Bernard Shaw, it is 30 Popular science, like that of Mr. Blatchford, is in this matter as mild 31 After all the modern clatter of Calvinism, therefore, it is only with 32 When a man is asked to write down what he really thinks on education, a 33 The fashionable fallacy is that by education we can give people 34 But the important point here is only that you cannot anyhow get rid of 35 In short, the new education is as harsh as the old, whether or no it is 36 I will take one case that will serve both as symbol and example: the 37 Through all this chaos, then we come back once more to our main 38 The word success can of course be used in two senses. It may be used 39 These are the false accusations; the accusation of classicism, the 40 For this deep and disabling reason therefore, its cynical and abandoned 41 There is one thing at least of which there is never so much as a 42 It is the same in the case of girls. I am often solemnly asked what I 43 A cultivated Conservative friend of mine once exhibited great distress 44 When Lord Morley said that the House of Lords must be either mended or 45 In the quarrel earlier alluded to between the energetic Progressive and 46 Here, it may be said, my book ends just where it ought to begin. I have 47 Not wishing to overload this long essay with too many parentheses, 48 I have not dealt with any details touching distributed ownership, or