Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 / 2008-09-07 00:00:00

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THE CRIMES OF
ENGLAND
BY
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
MCMXVI
1916

_CONTENTS_

CHAPTER I
SOME WORDS TO PROFESSOR WHIRLWIND
The German Professor, his need of Education
for Debate--Three Mistakes of German
Controversialists--The Multiplicity of
Excuses--Falsehood against Experience--
Kultur preached by Unkultur--The Mistake
about Bernard Shaw--German Lack of
Welt-Politik--Where England is really
Wrong.

CHAPTER II
THE PROTESTANT HERO
Suitable Finale for the German Emperor--Frederick
II. and the Power of
Fear--German Influence in England since
Lather--Our German Kings and Allies--
Triumph of Frederick the Great.

CHAPTER III
THE ENIGMA OF WATERLOO
How we helped Napoleon--The Revolution
and the Two Germanics--Religious
Resistance of Austria and Russia--Irreligious
Resistance of Prussia and England--Negative
Irreligion of England--its Idealism
in Snobbishness--Positive Irreligion of
Prussia; no Idealism in Anything--Allegory
and the French Revolution--The Dual
Personality of England; the Double Battle--Triumph
of Blucher.
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