Key insights from
Heretics
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Published Feb 4, 2011
What you'll learn
In a famous set of essays published in 1905, G.K. Chesterton explains why he takes issue with certain fashionable thinkers and trends of thought. Among the writers he takes on are Rudyard Kipling (author of The Jungle Book) and George Bernard Shaw (author of Pygmalion). The insights preserve the present tense, as if the author and his contemporaries were still living. The ideas they held to certainly still are.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Heretics are those who team up to tear down the town’s lamppost, only to begin fighting one another in the dark.
- 2 Instead of choosing humanity and abandoning a broken ideal of progress, some choose progress and throw out humanity.
- 3 Advanced weaponry and large standing armies don’t exhibit a society’s bravery, but its cowardice.
- 4 Moss is a sign of growth and life—not the rolling stone echoing in a remote canyon.
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