What's Wrong With the World

Table of Contents

What's Wrong With the World

PART ONE: THE HOMELESSNESS OF MAN

I. The Medical Mistake

II. Wanted: An Unpractical Man

III. The New Hypocrite

IV. The Fear of the Past

V. The Unfinished Temple

VI. The Enemies of Property

VII. The Free Family

XIII. The Wildness of Domesticity

IX. History of Hudge and Gudge

X. Oppression by Optimism

XI. The Homelessness of Jones

PART TWO: IMPERIALISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT MAN

I. The Charm of Jingoism

II. Wisdom and the Weather

III. The Common Vision

IV. The Insane Necessity

PART THREE: FEMINISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT WOMAN

I. The Unmilitary Suffragette

II. The Universal Stick

III. The Emancipation of Domesticity

IV. The Romance of Thrift

V. The Coldness of Chloe

VI. The Pedant and the Savage

VII. The Modern Surrender of Woman

VIII. The Brand of the Fleur-de-Lis

IX. Sincerity and the Gallows

X. The Higher Anarchy

XI. The Queen and the Suffragettes

XII. The Modern Slave

PART FOUR: EDUCATION, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT THE CHILD

I. The Calvinism of To-day

II. The Tribal Terror

III. The Tricks of Environment

IV. The Truth About Education

VI. Authority the Unavoidable

VII. The Humility of Mrs. Grundy

VIII. The Broken Rainbow

IX. The Need for Narrowness

X. The Case for the Public Schools

XI. The School for Hypocrites

XII. The Staleness of the New Schools

XIII. The Outlawed Parent

XIV. Folly and Female Education

PART FIVE: THE HOME OF MAN

I. The Empire of the Insect

II. The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand

III. The Dreadful Duty of Gudge

IV. A Last Instance

I. On Female Suffrage

II. On Cleanliness in Education

III. On Peasant Proprietorship

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