Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humor is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original collection of essays, providing an invaluable contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercise leading thinkers in the present one. Chapters 01 Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy, 02 On the Negative Spirit, 03 On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small, 04 Mr. Bernard Shaw, 05 Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants, 06 Christmas and the Esthetes, 07 Omar and the Sacred Vine, 08 The Mildness of the Yellow Press, 09 The Moods of Mr. George Moore, 10 On Sandals and Simplicity, 11 Science and the Savages, 12 Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson, 13 Celts and Celtophiles, 14 On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family, 15 On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set, 16 On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity, 17 On the Wit of Whistler, 18 The Fallacy of the Young Nation, 19 Slum Novelists and the Slums, 20 Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
