What's Wrong with the World
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A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat sharply defined. It begins as a rule with an analysis, with statistics, tables of population, decrease of crime among Congregationalists, growth of hysteria among policemen, and similar ascertained facts; it ends with a chapter that is generally called "The Remedy." It is almost wholly due to this careful, solid, and scientific method that "The Remedy" is never found. For this scheme of medical question and answer is a blunder; the first great blunder of sociology. It is always called stating the disease before we find the cure. But ...
Chapters (56)
- 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
- VIII. 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
- V. AN EVIL CRY
- 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
- V. CONCLUSION
- THREE NOTES
- I. ON FEMALE SUFFRAGE
- II. ON CLEANLINESS IN EDUCATION
- III. ON PEASANT PROPRIETORSHIP
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