Fancies Versus Fads
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Published: 1823
Total Pages: 237
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Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Published: 1823
Total Pages: 237
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Published: 1923
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-13
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Fancies Versus Fads There is indeed nothing very extraordinary about these visions, except the extraordinary people who have provoked some of them. They are only a very sketchy sort of sketches of some of the strange things that may be found in the modern world. But however inadequate be the example, it is none the less true that this is the sound principle behind much better examples and that, in those great things as in these small ones, sanity was the condition of satire. It is because Gulliver is a man of moderate stature that he can stray into the land of the giants and the land of the pygmies. It is Swift and not the professors of Laputa who sees the real romance of getting sunbeams out of cucumbers. It would be less than exact to call Swift a sunbeam in the house but if he did not himself get much sunshine out of cucumbers, at least he let daylight into professors. It was not the mad Swift but the sane Swift who made that story so wild. The truth is more self evident in men who were more sane. It is the good sense of Rabelais that makes him seem to grin like a gargoyle and it is in a sense because Dickens was a Philistine that he saw the land so full of strange gods. These idle journalistic jottings have nothing in common with such standards of real literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 237
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Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 110
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Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Published: 2020-03-28
Total Pages: 115
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake about humanity, consists in forgetting that we should have the first kind of pleasure as well as the second. It might be said that we should have the first pleasure as the basis of the second; or yet more truly, the first pleasure inside the second. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Author: G K Chesterton
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Published: 2020-03-28
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake about humanity, consists in forgetting that we should have the first kind of pleasure as well as the second. It might be said that we should have the first pleasure as the basis of the second; or yet more truly, the first pleasure inside the second. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 171
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Fancies Versus Fads' is a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. Many of these essays are about topics that were incredibly popular in his time. Some of the featured titles include: 'Hamlet and the Psychoanalyst', 'The Revolt of the Spoilt Child', 'Turning Inside Out', 'The Pagoda of Progress', and 'Much Too Modern History'.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Nevill
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 332
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