Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays eBook

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
A SONG OF SWORDS	1
UTOPIA OF USURERS	1
The Example of the Arts	2
The First Effect	3
II. Letters and the New Laureates	3
A Dance of Degradation	4
Haloes for Employers	5
III. Unbusinesslike Business	6
IV. The War on Holidays	8
The Great Holiday	9
The Supreme Adventure	9
V. THE CHURCH OF THE SERVILE STATE	10
VI. SCIENCE AND THE EUGENISTS	12
VII. THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRISON	13
The Evolutionists’ Error	14
Prisons for All	15
VIII. THE LASH FOR LABOUR	16
The Sultan and the Sack	16
The Barbarous Revival	18
IX. THE MASK OF SOCIALISM	19
THE ESCAPE	21
THE NEW RAID	21
THE NEW NAME	23
Our Lawless Enemies	24
Captured Our Standards	25
A WORKMAN’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND	26
That Great Reform Bill	27
The Capitalist Is in the Dock	28
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE IRISH	29
Revolution by Snap Division	29
The Revival of Reality	31
LIBERALISM: A SAMPLE	31
Mental Breakdown in Fleet Street	32
When the Journalist Is Ruined	33
THE FATIGUE OF FLEET STREET	33
Insane Exaggeration	34
Their Load of Lies	35
THE AMNESTY FOR AGGRESSION	36
Ought to Be Hammered	36
The Whole Loathsome Load	37
Crying Over Spilt Blood	38
REVIVE THE COURT JESTER	38
Praise and Prophecy Impossible	39
The Field for a Fool	39
Carson’s Dilemma	40
Belated Chattiness by Wireless	41
A Fool Who Shall Be Free	41
THE ART OF MISSING THE POINT	41
The Candid Candidate	42
Tyranny and Head-Dress	43
THE SERVILE STATE AGAIN	44
THE EMPIRE OF THE IGNORANT	46
Literally Illiterate	47
But They Know	47
Smile and Smile	48
THE SYMBOLISM OF KRUPP	48
THE TOWER OF BEBEL	51
A REAL DANGER	53
Must Be a Mystery	54
The Plain Difference	55
THE DREGS OF PURITANISM	56
THE TYRANNY OF BAD JOURNALISM	58
THE POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION	61
The Symbolism of the Badge	61
The Beastly Individualist	62

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