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The Project Gutenberg EBook of All Things Considered, by G. K. Chesterton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: All Things Considered Author: G. K. Chesterton Release Date: March 7, 2004 [EBook #11505] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL THINGS CONSIDERED *** Produced by Robert Shimmin, jayam and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ALL THINGS CONSIDERED BY G. K. CHESTERTON Ninth Edition CONTENTS THE CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL COCKNEYS AND THEIR JOKES THE FALLACY OF SUCCESS ON RUNNING AFTER ONE'S HAT THE VOTE AND THE HOUSE CONCEIT AND CARICATURE PATRIOTISM AND SPORT AN ESSAY ON TWO CITIES FRENCH AND ENGLISH THE ZOLA CONTROVERSY OXFORD FROM WITHOUT WOMAN THE MODERN MARTYR ON POLITICAL SECRECY EDWARD VII. AND SCOTLAND THOUGHTS AROUND KOEPENICK THE BOY LIMERICKS AND COUNSELS OF PERFECTION ANONYMITY AND FURTHER COUNSELS ON THE CRYPTIC AND THE ELLIPTIC THE WORSHIP OF THE WEALTHY SCIENCE AND RELIGION THE METHUSELAHITE SPIRITUALISM THE ERROR OF IMPARTIALITY PHONETIC SPELLING HUMANITARIANISM AND STRENGTH WINE WHEN IT IS RED DEMAGOGUES AND MYSTAGOGUES THE "EATANSWILL GAZETTE" FAIRY TALES TOM JONES AND MORALITY THE MAID OF ORLEANS A DEAD POET CHRISTMAS ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last moment; they were handed in the moment before it was too late, and I do not think that our commonwealth would have been shaken to its foundations if they had been handed in the moment after. They must go out now, with all their imperfections on their head, or rather on mine; for their vices are too vital to be improved with a blue pencil, or with anything I can think of, except dynamite. Their chief vice is that so many of them are very serious; because I had no time
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