Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world’s most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of the world around him through the device of paradox.
It is always great fun, and certainly always a learning experience to read Chesterton. A Miscellany of Men may be his hardest work to define, as it deals with a huge array of issues, using “personal types” as illustration. It would only be bewildering, if there was not these common threads: First that these types still exist, and the same faulty reasoning applies to issues of our day, and second, that underlying all of this is a firm and reasoned defense of democracy in a sense very close to that of the American Founding Fathers. (Summary by Ray Clare)
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The Suffragist, The Poet and the Cheese, The Thing
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The Man Who Thinks Backwards, The Nameless Man, The Gardener and the Guinea
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The Voter and the Two Voices, The Mad Official, The Enchanted Man
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The Sun Worshipper, The Wrong Incendiary, The Free Man
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The Hypothetical Householder, The Priest of Spring, The Real Journalist
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The Sentimental Scot, The Sectarian of Society, The Fool
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The Conscript and the Crisis, The Miser and His Friends, The Mystagogue
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The Red Reactionary, The Separatist and Sacred Things, The Mummer
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The Aristocratic 'Arry, The New Theologian, The Romantic in the Rain
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The False Philosopher, The Sultan, The Architect of Spears
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The Man on Top, The Other Kind of Man, The Medieval Villain
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The Divine Detective, The Elf of Japan, The Chartered Libertine
