Fancies Versus Fads
G. K. Chesterton
I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander. The wild theorists of our time are quite unable to wander. When they talk of making new roads, they are only making new ruts. Each of them is necessarily imprisoned in his own curious cosmos; in other words, he is limited by the very largeness of his own generalization. The explanations of the Marxian must not go outside economics; and the student of Freud is forbidden to forget sex. To see only the fanciful side of these serious sects may seem a very frivolous pleasure—and I will not dispute that these are very frivolous criticisms. I only submit that this frivolity is the last lingering form of freedom.
Duration - 7h 3m.
Author - G. K. Chesterton.
Narrator - Russell Stamets.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 1923 Russell Stamets ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander. The wild theorists of our time are quite unable to wander. When they talk of making new roads, they are only making new ruts. Each of them is necessarily imprisoned in his own curious cosmos; in other words, he is limited by the very largeness of his own generalization. The explanations of the Marxian must not go outside economics; and the student of Freud is forbidden to forget sex. To see only the fanciful side of these serious sects may seem a very frivolous pleasure—and I will not dispute that these are very frivolous criticisms. I only submit that this frivolity is the last lingering form of freedom. Duration - 7h 3m. Author - G. K. Chesterton. Narrator - Russell Stamets. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 1923 Russell Stamets ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:09
introduction
Duration:00:07:51
the romance of rhyme
Duration:00:37:51
hamlet and the psychoanalyst
Duration:00:28:11
the meaning of mock turkey
Duration:00:19:24
shakespeare and the legal lady
Duration:00:17:22
on being an old bean
Duration:00:09:50
the fear of the film
Duration:00:11:19
wings and the housemaid
Duration:00:09:40
the slavery of free verse
Duration:00:09:44
prohibition and the press
Duration:00:10:29
the mercy of mr arnold bennett
Duration:00:12:23
a defence of dramatic unities
Duration:00:10:27
the boredom of butterflies
Duration:00:09:42
the terror of a toy
Duration:00:09:11
false theory and the theatre
Duration:00:10:38
the secret society of mankind
Duration:00:13:02
the sentimentalism of divorce
Duration:00:09:30
street cries and stretching the law
Duration:00:10:17
why reforms go wrong
Duration:00:09:45
the innocence of the criminal
Duration:00:11:14
the prudery of the feminists
Duration:00:10:59
how mad laws are made
Duration:00:10:57
the pagoda of progress
Duration:00:08:56
the myth of the mayflower
Duration:00:11:36
much too modern history
Duration:00:08:58
the evolution of slaves
Duration:00:11:29
is darwin dead
Duration:00:12:20
turning inside out
Duration:00:20:58
strikes and the spirit of wonder
Duration:00:11:08
a note on old nonsense
Duration:00:11:45
milton and merry england
Duration:00:35:51
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:21