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Why read it
For the reader who wonders what is going wrong in society and distrusts both fashionable solutions and plain pessimism. It suits those interested in family, education or property who want to see the ordinary life defended with wit. It is a book of ideas, yet it reads with pleasure because of its humour.
Summary
Chesterton surveys the social ills of the early twentieth century (poverty, education, the place of women, the home) and proposes that the remedy is not some new engineering but giving ordinary people back property, family and the freedom of their own house. Through jokes and paradox he defends the common citizen against reformers and big interests alike.
Quotes
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty. Nay, it is the only place of anarchy.
Coercion is a kind of encouragement; and anarchy (or what some call liberty) is essentially oppressive, because it is essentially discouraging.
Moral rating
6 of 6: No drawbacks. See on delibris.org
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