I would give woman, not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free. G.K. Chesterton, A Modern Slave, What’s Wrong with the World Chesterton saw the home as the place in…
Category: Domesticity
Chesterton’s Fence Part II
The alternative to the family is the individual. Within the family is mutual obligation. The parent cares for the child, and the child is then obligated to obey and care for the parent. Chesterton saw that as first the father and then the mother was removed from the home, the basic unit of society was…
Chesterton’s Fence, part I
The Drift from Domesticity, found in Chesterton’s book entitled “The Thing, Why I am a Catholic,” introduces the idea of Chesterton’s Fence. Basically, Chesterton claims that we should not tear down a fence unless we know why it was put there in the first place. We would certainly agree with him if there were a…