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What's Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton — WisdomDeck honest review
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What's Wrong with the World

by G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton on family, property, education and feminism in 1910: the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried.

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  1. Ideals untried, not failed.
  2. Home is the point.
  3. Paradox reveals.

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