What's Wrong With The World

G. K. Chesterton

What's Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton. Whats Wrong with the World opens with an analysis of the predicament of modern humanity, too obsessed in the great age of political idealism with visions of the future. I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, "I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning." And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it) that I had to run upstairs and do what was wrong, but should be down again in a minute. Exactly of what occult vice they silently accused me I cannot conjecture, but I know of what I accuse myself; and that is, of having written a very shapeless and inadequate book, and one quite unworthy to be dedicated to you. As far as literature goes, this book is what is wrong and no mistake.

Table of contents

• DEDICATION
• THE MEDICAL MISTAKE
• WANTED, AN UNPRACTICAL MAN
• THE NEW HYPOCRITE
• THE FEAR OF THE PAST
• THE UNFINISHED TEMPLE
• THE ENEMIES OF PROPERTY
• THE FREE FAMILY
• THE WILDNESS OF DOMESTICITY
• HISTORY OF HUDGE AND GUDGE
• OPPRESSION BY OPTIMISM
• THE HOMELESSNESS OF JONES
• PART TWO IMPERIALISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT MAN
• THE CHARM OF JINGOISM
• WISDOM AND THE WEATHER
• THE COMMON VISION
• THE INSANE NECESSITY
• PART THREE FEMINISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT WOMAN
• THE UNMILITARY SUFFRAGETTE
• THE UNIVERSAL STICK
• THE EMANCIPATION OF DOMESTICITY
• THE ROMANCE OF THRIFT
• THE COLDNESS OF CHLOE
• THE PEDANT AND THE SAVAGE
• THE MODERN SURRENDER OF WOMAN
• THE BRAND OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS
• SINCERITY AND THE GALLOWS
• THE HIGHER ANARCHY
• THE QUEEN AND THE SUFFRAGETTES
• THE MODERN SLAVE
• PART FOUR EDUCATION: OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT THE CHILD
• THE CALVINISM OF TO-DAY
• The Tribal TError
• THE TRICKS OF ENVIRONMENT
• THE TRUTH ABOUT EDUCATION
• AN EVIL CRY
• AUTHORITY THE UNAVOIDABLE
• THE HUMILITY OF MRS. GRUNDY
• THE BROKEN RAINBOW
• THE NEED FOR NARROWNESS
• THE CASE FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• THE SCHOOL FOR HYPOCRITES
• THE STALENESS OF THE NEW SCHOOLS
• THE OUTLAWED PARENT
• FOLLY AND FEMALE EDUCATION
• PART FIVE THE HOME OF MAN
• THE EMPIRE OF THE INSECT
• THE FALLACY OF THE UMBRELLA STAND
• THE DREADFUL DUTY OF GUDGE
• A LAST INSTANCE
• CONCLUSION
• THREE NOTES
• ON FEMALE SUFFRAGE
• ON CLEANLINESS IN EDUCATION
• ON PEASANT PROPRIETORSHIP