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Chesterton gives his remarkably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues more relevant today than even in his own time. In his light and humorous style, yet deadly serious and philosophical, he comments on feminism and true womanhood, errors in education, the importance of the child and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters' assaults against the family.

Chesterton possessed the genius to foresee the dangers if modernist proposals were implemented. He knew that lax moral standards would lead to the dehumanization of man, and in this book he staunchly defends the family, its constituent elements and character over against those ideas and institutions that would subvert it and thereby deliver man into the hands of the servile state. In addressing what is wrong, he also shows clearly what is right, sane and sensible and how to change things in that direction.

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• Part I The Homelessness of Man
• 1 The Medical Mistake(p. 3)
• 2 Wanted, An Unpractical Man(p. 7)
• 3 The New Hypocrite(p. 13)
• 4 The Fear of the Past(p. 19)
• 5 The Unfinished Temple(p. 27)
• 6 The Enemies of Property(p. 33)
• 7 The Free Family(p. 37)
• 8 The Wildness of Domesticity(p. 42)
• 9 History of Hudge and Gudge(p. 47)
• 10 Oppression by Optimism(p. 52)
• 11 The Homelessness of Jones(p. 55)
• Part II Imperialism: Or the Mistake About Man
• 1 The Charm of Jingoism(p. 61)
• 2 Wisdom and the Weather(p. 65)
• 3 The Common Vision(p. 72)
• 4 The Insane Necessity(p. 76)
• Part III Feminism: Or the Mistake About Woman
• 1 The Unmilitary Suffragette(p. 85)
• 2 The Universal Stick(p. 88)
• 3 The Emancipation of Domesticity(p. 95)
• 4 The Romance of Thrift(p. 101)
• 5 The Coldness of Chloe(p. 107)
• 6 The Pedant and the Savage(p. 112)
• 7 The Modern Surrender of Woman(p. 116)
• 8 The Brand of the Fleur de Lys(p. 119)
• 9 Sincerity and the Gallows(p. 123)
• 10 The Higher Anarchy(p. 126)
• 11 The Queen and the Suffragettes(p. 131)
• 12 The Modern Slave(p. 133)
• Part IV Education: Or the Mistake About the Child
• 1 The Calvinism of To-day(p. 139)
• 2 The Tribal Terror(p. 142)
• 3 The Tricks of Environment(p. 145)
• 4 The Truth About Education(p. 147)
• 5 An Evil Cry(p. 150)
• 6 Authority the Unavoidable(p. 153)
• 7 The Humility of Mrs. Grundy(p. 158)
• 8 The Broken Rainbow(p. 162)
• 9 The Need for Narrowness(p. 166)
• 10 The Case for the Public Schools(p. 169)
• 11 The School for Hypocrites(p. 175)
• 12 The Staleness of the New Schools(p. 181)
• 13 The Outlawed Parent(p. 185)
• 14 Folly and Female Education(p. 189)
• Part V The Home of Man
• 1 The Empire of the Insect(p. 195)
• 2 The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand(p. 202)
• 3 The Dreadful Duty of Gudge(p. 207)
• 4 A Doubt(p. 210)
• 5 Conclusion(p. 212)

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England, in 1874. He began his education at St Paul's School, and later went on to study art at the Slade School, and literature at University College in London.

Chesterton wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as works of social and literary criticism. Among his most notable books are The Man Who Was Thursday, a metaphysical thriller, and The Everlasting Man, a history of humankind's spiritual progress. After Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922, he wrote mainly on religious topics. Chesterton is most known for creating the famous priest-detective character Father Brown, who first appeared in "The Innocence of Father Brown."

Chesterton died in 1936 at the age of 62.

(Bowker Author Biography)