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Varied Types

by G. K. Chesterton

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good-natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes.(Summary by Ray Clare)

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Episodes

  1. Charlotte Bronte

  2. William Morris and his School

  3. The Optimism of Byron

  4. Pope and the Art of Satire

  5. Francis

  6. Rostand

  7. Charles II

  8. Stevenson

  9. Thomas Carlyle

  10. Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity

  11. Savonarola

  12. The Position of Sir Walter Scott

  13. Bret Harte

  14. Alfred the Great

  15. Maeterlinck

  16. Ruskin

  17. Queen Victoria

  18. The German Emperor

  19. Tennyson

  20. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good-natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes.(Summary by Ray Clare)

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