Table of Contents
Heretics 1
Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 3
On the Negative Spirit 11
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small 19
Mr. Bernard Shaw 29
Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants 37
Christmas and the Æsthetes 49
Omar and the Sacred Vine 55
The Mildness of the Yellow Press 61
The Moods of Mr. George Moore 69
On Sandals and Simplicity 73
Science and the Savages 77
Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson 83
Celts and Celtophiles 93
On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family 97
On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set 107
On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity 117
On the Wit of Whistler 127
The Fallacy of the Young Nation 135
Slum Novelists and the Slums 147
Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy 157
Orthodoxy 169
Introduction in Defense of Everything Else 173
The Maniac 179
The Suicide of Thought 195
The Ethics of Elfland 211
The Flag of the World 231
The Paradoxes of Christianity 247
The Eternal Revolution 267
The Romance of Orthodoxy 289
Authority and the Adventurer 305