Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Binker North. This book was released on 1917 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia of Usurers is a classic collection of political essays which comment upon the conditions of Great Britain by G.K. Chesterton. What is it that angers Chesterton and fills him with grim forebodings for the future of his island? Many things and, especially, many persons. But chiefly the capitalists, the upper middle class, the usurers, or however they be termed, and the fear of the servile state, the state in which art and literature and science and efficiency and morality and everything else that has value in the eyes of mortal man become the humble servants of the money-changers, in short, the "utopia of usurers." --The Dial, 1918.
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Download or read book Utopia of Usurers written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Utopia of Usurers G.K. Chesterton takes to task the theoretical and practical fallout of laissez-faire capitalism. The book invites all comers to reconsider their ideological prejudices concerning "conservative" love of the free market. As Chesterton argues in "The Superstition of Divorce" "Capitalism, of course, is at war with the family. It desires its victims to be individuals, or (in other words) to be atoms. For the word atom, in its clearest meaning (which is none too clear) might be translated as 'individual.' If there be any bond, if there be any brotherhood, if there be any class loyalty or domestic discipline . . . these individualists will redistribute it in the form of individuals; or in other words smash it to atoms." Either our times are ripe for Utopia of Usurers, or Utopia of Usurers is ripe for our times.
Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: rt and AdvertisementI propose, subject to the patience of the reader, to devote two or three articles to prophecy. Like all healthy-minded prophets, sacred and profane, I can only prophesy when I am in a rage and think things look ugly for everybody. And like all healthy-minded prophets, I prophesy in the hope that my prophecy may not come true. For the prediction made by the true soothsayer is like the warning given by a good doctor. And the doctor has really triumphed when the patient he condemned to death has revived to life. The threat is justified at the very moment when it is falsified. Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of the excuses which serve the capitalists as masks are, of course, the excuses of hypocrites. They lie when they claim philanthropy; they no more feel any particular love of men than Albu felt an affection for Chinamen. They lie when they say they have reached their position through their own organising ability. They generally have to pay men to organise the mine, exactly as they pay men to go down it. They often lie about the present wealth, as they generally lie about their past poverty. But when they say that they are going in for a "constructive social policy," they do not lie. They really are going in for a constructive social policy. And we must go in for an equally destructive social policy; and destroy, while it is still half-constructed, the accursed thing which they construct.The Example of the ArtsNow I propose to take, one after another, certain aspects and departments of modern life, and describe what I think they will be like in this paradise of plutocrats, this Utopia of gold and brass in which the great story of England seems so likely to end. I propose to say what I think our new masters, the mere millionaires, will do with certain human interests and institutions, such as art, science, jurisprudence, or religion-unless we strike soon enough to prevent them. And for the sake of argument I will take in this article the example of the arts.
Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I propose, subject to the patience of the reader, to devote two or three articles to prophecy. Like all healthy-minded prophets, sacred and profane, I can only prophesy when I am in a rage and think things look ugly for everybody. And like all healthy-minded prophets, I prophesy in the hope that my prophecy may not come true. For the prediction made by the true soothsayer is like the warning given by a good doctor. And the doctor has really triumphed when the patient he condemned to death has revived to life. The threat is justified at the very moment when it is falsified. Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of the excuses which serve the capitalists as masks are, of course, the excuses of hypocrites. They lie when they claim philanthropy; they no more feel any particular love of men than Albu felt an affection for Chinamen. They lie when they say they have reached their position through their own organising ability. They generally have to pay men to organise the mine, exactly as they pay men to go down it. They often lie about the present wealth, as they generally lie about their past poverty. But when they say that they are going in for a "constructive social policy," they do not lie. They really are going in for a constructive social policy. And we must go in for an equally destructive social policy; and destroy, while it is still halfconstructed, the accursed thing which they construct.The Example of the ArtsNow I propose to take, one after another, certain aspects and departments of modern life, and describe what I think they will be like in this paradise of plutocrats, this Utopia of gold and brass in which the great story of England seems so likely to end. I propose to say what I think our new masters, the mere millionaires, will do with certain human interests and institutions, such as art, science, jurisprudence, or religion-unless we strike soon enough to prevent them. And for the sake of argument I will take in this article the example of the arts.Most people have seen a picture called "Bubbles," which is used for the advertisement of a celebrated soap, a small cake of which is introduced into the pictorial design. And anybody with an instinct for design (the caricaturist of the Daily Herald, for instance), will guess that it was not originally a part of the design. He will see that the cake of soap destroys the picture as a picture; as much as if the cake of soap had been used to Scrub off the paint. Small as it is, it breaks and confuses the whole balance of objects in the composition.
Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Classic Reprint written by G. K. Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays A Song of Swords "A drove of cattle came into a village called Swords; and was stopped by the rioters." - Daily Paper. In the place called Swords on the Irish road It is told for a new renown How we held the horns of the cattle, and how We will hold the horns of the devils now Ere the lord of hell with the horn on his brow Is crowned in Dublin town. Light in the East and light in the West, And light on the cruel lords. On the souls that suddenly all men knew. And the green flag flew and the red flag flew, And many a wheel of the world stopped, too. When the cattle were stopped at Swords. Be they sinners or less than saints That smite in the street for rage, We know where the shame shines bright; we know You that they smite at, you their foe, Lords of the lawless wage and low, This is your lawful wage. 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.
Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays written by G. K. Chesterton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 172 pages. G.K. Chesterton at his finest. A SONG OF SWORDS 4UTOPIA OF USURERS 7THE ESCAPE 57THE NEW RAID 59THE NEW NAME 64A WORKMAN'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND 72THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE IRISH 79LIBERALISM: A SAMPLE 86THE FATIGUE OF FLEET STREET 92THE AMNESTY FOR AGGRESSION 98REVIVE THE COURT JESTER 105THE ART OF MISSING THE POINT 113THE SERVILE STATE AGAIN 119THE EMPIRE OF THE IGNORANT 126THE SYMBOLISM OF KRUPP 132THE TOWER OF BEBEL 137A REAL DANGER 144THE DREGS OF PURITANISM 152THE TYRANNY OF BAD JOURNALISM 158THE POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION 165
Download or read book Utopia of Usurers written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-27 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the classic texts for anyone interested in the rich heritage of Catholic social doctrine. The author challenges the fundamental doctrines of capitalism by providing a philosophical analysis of its pitfalls, drawbacks, and falsehoods.
Download or read book Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two kinds of social reform, one of which might conceivably free us at last while the otherwould certainly enslave us forever, are exhibited in an easy working model in the two efforts thathave been made for the soldiers' wives-I mean the effort to increase their allowance and the effortto curtail their alleged drinking. In the preliminary consideration, at any rate, we must see the secondquestion as quite detached from our own sympathies on the special subject of fermented liquor. Itcould be applied to any other pleasure or ornament of life; it will be applied to every other pleasureand ornament of life if the Capitalist campaign can succeed. The argument we know; but it cannotbe too often made clear. An employer, let us say, pays a seamstress twopence a day, and she doesnot seem to thrive on it. So little, perhaps, does she thrive on it that the employer has even somedifficulty in thriving upon her. There are only two things that he can do, and the distinction betweenthem cuts the whole social and political world in two. It is a touchstone by which we can-notsometimes, but always-distinguish economic equality from servile social reform. He can give thegirl some magnificent sum, such as sixpence a day, to do as she likes with, and trust that herimproved health and temper will work for the benefit of his business. Or he may keep her to theoriginal sum of a shilling a week, but earmark each of the pennies to be used or not to be used for aparticular purpose. If she must not spend this penny on a bunch of violets, or that penny on anovelette, or the other penny on a toy for some baby, it is possible that she will concentrate herexpenditure more upon physical necessities, and so become, from the employer's point of view, amore efficient person. Without the trouble of adding twopence to her wages, he has addedtwopenny-worth to her food. In short, she has the holy satisfaction of being worth more withoutbeing paid more.
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Download or read book Utopia of Usurers written by G. K. Chesterton and published by I H S Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging work sure to appeal to both scholars and students for the depth of its thought and the freshness of its claims, this is a two-part book by one of the 20th century's greatest writers. The first part is a coherent analysis of the theory, effects, and claims of capitalism. The second is a lengthy collection of articles from Chesterton's vast journalistic output. The author challenges the fundamental tenets of capitalism without favoring socialism or Marxism by providing a philosophical analysis of the pitfalls, drawbacks, and falsehoods regarding capitalism and its inevitability. This is must reading for any serious investigation into anti-capitalist thought. It is also an exemplary text of how Christian principles and thinking apply to the socioeconomic world.
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