Heretics, a collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton, critiques several prominent figures and ideas of his time. The book is marked by the author's clear, incisive wit and clever rhetoric as he challenges the philosophies that he sees as dangerous to society.

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I: Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

II: On the Negative Spirit

III: On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small

IV: Mr. Bernard Shaw

V: Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants

VI: Christmas and the Aesthetes

VII: Omar and the Sacred Vine

VIII: The Mildness of the Yellow Press

IX: The Moods of Mr. George Moore

X: On Sandals and Simplicity

XI: Science and the Savages

XII: Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson

XIII: Celts and Celtophiles

XIV: On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family

XV: On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set

XVI: On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity

XVII: On the Wit of Whistler

XVIII: The Fallacy of the Young Nation

XIX: Slum Novelists and the Slums

XX: Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

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