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The story of the family : G. K. Chesterton on the only state that creates and loves its own citizens / edited with an introduction by Dale Ahlquist
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Apologetic works--19th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Apologetic works.
- Catholic Church--Family.
- Catholic Church--Marriage.
- Apologetics--England.
- Apologetics.
- Marriage.
- asylums (welfare buildings).
- Families.
- Home.
- Medical Subjects:
- Marriage.
- Genre:
- essays.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The disintegration of rational society started in the drift from the hearth and the family", wrote G. K. Chesterton in 1933. "The solution must be a drift back." In a world that has lost touch with normality, it takes a pioneer to rediscover the wonders of the normal. This masterful compilation of texts and quotes from the prolific G. K. Chesterton, edited by Dale Ahlquist, illustrates the glory of the family--the heritage of romance, love, marriage, parenthood, and home. It is a hymn in praise of the saucepan, the kettle, the hairbrush, the umbrella stand, what Chesterton calls "the brave old bones of life". With piercing wit, the English writer pits all these venerable truths against the fashions of divorce, contraception, and abortion, along with the troubling philosophies that have afflicted education and the workplace since the early twentieth century. Society is built on the family, in all its unglamorous beauty, and Chesterton helps readers to see this reality with fresh eyes. As he writes:"The first things must be the very fountains of life, love and birth and babyhood; and these are always covered fountains, flowing in the quiet courts of the home." -- Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Family and the World
- Poem: The House of Christmas
- "Quotations"
- Essays and Excerpts: Where History Begins
- The Story of the Family
- On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
- What Is the Institution of the Family?
- The Alternative to the Family
- 2. Love and Sex
- Poem: The Strange Music
- Essays and Excerpts: To Frances
- Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron
- The Essence of Romance
- Free Love in Literature
- The Next Heresy
- A Fury
- Sex and Property
- 3. Marriage and Divorce
- Poem: Creation Day
- Essays and Excerpts: A Defence of Rash Vows
- The Decay of Honour
- Marriage and the Modern Mind
- Incompatible
- The Freedom of Marriage
- The Bonds of Love
- Scientific Marriage
- On Divorce and Divinity
- Murder and Marriage
- The Eccentricity of Marriage
- Divorce and Slavery
- The Tragedies of Marriage
- Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth
- 4. Babies and Birth Control
- Poem: By the Babe Unborn
- Essays and Excerpts: A Defence of Baby-Worship
- Three Foes of the Family
- Social Reform vs. Birth Control
- Babies and Distributism
- Birth and Brain Control
- Blasphemy and the Baby
- Scipio and the Children
- The Large Family
- 5. Parents and Public Education
- Poem
- Essays and Excerpts: Turning Inside Out
- Playgrounds for Adults
- The Distributist Schoolmaster
- On Dangerous Toys
- Boyhood and Militarism
- The Child of the Servile State
- 6. Home and Work
- Poem: A Song of Education
- Essays and Excerpts: A Song of Education The Wildness of Domesticity
- The Drift from Domesticity
- The Emancipation of Domesticity
- The Dignity of Domesticity
- Women in the Workplace
- and in the Home
- The Feminist and the Factory
- A Feminist Fallacy
- Head of the House
- The Equality of Sexlessness
- On Household Gods and Goblins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781621644477
- 1621644472
- OCLC:
- 1310857189
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