HERETICS
by
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION
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Contents
I. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy .......................................................... 4
II. On the negative spirit ..................................................................................................................11
III. On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small ....................................................... 17
IV. Mr. Bernard Shaw ..................................................................................................................... 25
V. Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants................................................................................................... 32
VI. Christmas and the Aesthetes .................................................................................................... 44
VII. Omar and the Sacred Vine ...................................................................................................... 5