"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1908. Read by David "Grizzly" Smith. "The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel." This is how Chesterton explains "Orthodoxy," the sequel to Heretics. "I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe. I wil ...
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A collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Defences" of things at best less appreciated than they ought to be. "... It becomes increasingly apparent, therefore, that the world is in a permanent danger of being misjudged. That this is no fanciful or mystical idea may be tested by simple examples. The two absolutely basic words 'good' and 'bad,' descriptive of two primal and inexplicable sensations, are not, and never have been, used properly. Things that are bad are not called good ...
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"A Defence of Patriotism" the last chapter of The Defendant. Hope you enjoyed it!
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"A Defence of Detective Stories"
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"In Defence of Baby Worship"
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"A Defence of Slang"
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"A Defence of Humility"
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"A Defence of Farce"
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"A Defence of Ugly Things"
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"A Defence of Heraldry"
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"A Defence of Useful Information"
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"A Defence of China Shepherdesses"
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"A Defence of Planets"
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"A Defence of Nonsense"
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"A Defence of Publicity"
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"A Defence of Skeletons"
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"A Defence of Rash Vows"
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"A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"
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"In Defence of a New Edition" and "Introduction"
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Chapter 9, "Authority and the Adventurer"The last chapter has been concerned with the contention that orthodoxyis not only (as is often urged) the only safe guardian of morality ororder, but is also the only logical guardian of liberty, innovation andadvance.
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Chapter 8, "The Romance of Orthodoxy"It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of ourepoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound lazinessand fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of theapparent bustle.
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Chapter 7, "The Eternal Revolution"The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith inour life is required even to improve it; second, that somedissatisfaction with things as they are is necessary even in order to besatisfied; third, that to have this necessary content and necessarydiscontent it is not sufficient to have the obvio…
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Chapter 6, "The Paradoxes of Christianity"The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is anunreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one.
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Chapter 4, "The Ethics of Elfland"When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it iscommonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, onehas these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but inmiddle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a beliefin practical politics, to using the ma…
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Chapter 5, "The Flag of the World"When I was a boy there were two curious men running about who werecalled the optimist and the pessimist.
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Chapter 3, "The Suicide of Thought"The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figureof speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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Chapter 2, "The Maniac"Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they relyaltogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.
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Chapter 1, "Introduction in Defense of Everything Else"The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to achallenge.
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