A Miscellany Of Men

by G. K. Chesterton

Publisher:

Dodd, Mead and Company

, 1912

Overview

A Miscellany of Men contains essays on the most controversial topics of Chesterton’s day. It was written, says Chesterton, at “a time in which the liberal tradition, as I hold it, was not only dying but committing suicide.” His commentary is structured by analyzing the ranks and positions of individuals in the various strata of society. A Miscellany of Men also includes Chesterton’s oft-cited preface on the nature of human equality.

Product Details

• Title: A Miscellany Of Men
• Author: G. K. Chesterton
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
• Publication Date: 1912
• Pages: 314

About G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He worked at the Redway and T. Fisher Unwin publishing house until 1902, when he began writing regularly—his weekly columns appeared for decades in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. In all, he wrote more than 80 books, hundreds of poems, 200 short stories, 4,000 essays. Among his writings are his famous apologetic work Orthodoxy, a biography of St. Aquinas, his Father Brown detective stories, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, and The Man Who Was Thursday. He died on June 14, 1936 in Buckinghamshire.

Contents

Top Highlights

“But any philosophy about the sexes that begins with anything but the mutual attraction of the sexes, begins with a fallacy; and all its historical comparisons are as irrelevant and impertinent as puns.” (Page 5)

“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it” (Page 306)

“That all men are equal is a matter of abstract theory; that most men are equal is a matter of common fact.” (Page vi)

“Like most other popular sentiments, it is generally wrongly stated even when it is rightly felt. One part of it can be put most shortly thus: that when a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her. He can be afraid of her speech and still more of her silence; but force reminds him of a rusted but very real weapon of which he has grown ashamed.” (Page 1)

“For the things which are the simplest so long as they are undisputed invariably become the subtlest when once they are disputed: which was what Joubert meant, I suppose, when he said. ‘It is not hard to believe in God if one does not define Him.’” (Pages 1–2)

Product Details

• Title: A Miscellany of Men
• Author: G. K. Chesterton
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
• Print Publication Date: 1912
• Logos Release Date: 2010
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Man
• Resource ID: LLS:MISCYMEN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:21:17Z

About G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English author of various works, including his famous Orthodoxy. He worked at the Redway and T. Fisher Unwin publishing house until 1902, when he began writing regularly. His weekly columns appeared for decades in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. In all, he wrote more than 80 books, hundreds of poems, 200 short stories, and 4,000 essays.

Among his other writings are biographies of St. Aquinas, the Father Brown detective stories, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, and The Man Who Was Thursday. His famous Orthodoxy and several other titles including Heretics can be found in the G. K. Chesterton Collection (11 vols.).