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What’s Wrong with the World

by G. K. Chesterton

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  1. 1Contents
  2. 2Part One. The Homelessness of Man
  3. 3II — Wanted, an Unpractical Man
  4. 4III — The New Hypocrite
  5. 5IV — The Fear of the Past
  6. 6V — The Unfinished Temple
  7. 7VI — The Enemies of Property
  8. 8VII — The Free Family
  9. 9VIII — The Wildness of Domesticity
  10. 10IX — History of Hudge and Gudge
  11. 11X — Oppression by Optimism
  12. 12XI — The Homelessness of Jones
  13. 13Part Two. Imperialism, or the Mistake About Man
  14. 14II — Wisdom and the Weather
  15. 15III — The Common Vision
  16. 16IV — The Insane Necessity
  17. 17Part Three. Feminism, or the Mistake About Woman
  18. 18II — The Universal Stick
  19. 19III — The Emancipation of Domesticity
  20. 20IV — The Romance of Thrift
  21. 21V — The Coldness of Chloe
  22. 22VI — The Pedant and the Savage
  23. 23VII — The Modern Surrender of Woman
  24. 24VIII — The Brand of the Fleur-de-Lis
  25. 25IX — Sincerity and the Gallows
  26. 26X — The Higher Anarchy
  27. 27XI — The Queen and the Suffragettes
  28. 28XII — The Modern Slave
  29. 29Part Four. Education: Or the Mistake About the Child
  30. 30II — The Tribal Terror
  31. 31III — The Tricks of Environment
  32. 32IV — The Truth About Education
  33. 33V — An Evil Cry
  34. 34VI — Authority the Unavoidable
  35. 35VII — The Humility of Mrs. Grundy
  36. 36VIII — The Broken Rainbow
  37. 37IX — The Need for Narrowness
  38. 38X — The Case for the Public Schools
  39. 39XI — The School for Hypocrites
  40. 40XII — The Staleness of the New Schools
  41. 41XIII — The Outlawed Parent
  42. 42XIV — Folly and Female Education
  43. 43Part Five. The Home of Man
  44. 44II — The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand
  45. 45III — The Dreadful Duty of Gudge
  46. 46IV — A Last Instance
  47. 47V — Conclusion
  48. 48Three Notes
  49. 49II — On Cleanliness in Education
  50. 50III — On Peasant Proprietorship

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