Heretics

The modern world, Chesterton complains, has stopped asking whether a man's view of the universe is true; it is thought bad manners to have one at all. In these twenty essays he takes the celebrated thinkers of his day one by one, Kipling, Shaw, Wells, Moore, Whistler and the rest, and asks of each the question it is no longer polite to ask: what does he believe, and is it right? Witty, generous to his opponents and relentless with their ideas, the book argues that a man who refuses to have a creed has not escaped dogma but only hidden it, and it is the challenge to which Orthodoxy, three years later, gave his answer.