Heretics
by G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton takes on Shaw, Wells, Kipling and the fashionable thinkers of 1905, arguing that everyone has a dogma and should admit it. The prequel to Orthodoxy.
Read it if…
you want Chesterton sparring.
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Skip it if…
you do not know the targets; start with Orthodoxy.
Try instead: Saint Francis of Assisi →
Three things you will actually use
- Everyone has a creed.
- Attack ideas, love people.
- Wit is argument.
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Read the introduction on the importance of orthodoxy.
Our verdict
Chesterton versus the moderns.
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