Meeting 9/7; Unusual Time

The Chesterton group will meet on Wednesday, 9/7, at 6:00 pm, to discuss Chapter 1 of An Essay on the Restoration of Property.

You can get a copy at

• the American Chesterton Society website,
• Amazon.com, 
• Barnes and Noble, or
• Google Play Books.

Meeting 8/31

Greetings!

The Chesterton group will meet this Wednesday, 8/31, at 7:30 pm. This week, we'll beginning a new book by a close collaborator and friend of Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, entitled An Essay on the Restoration of Property. You can get a copy at

• the American Chesterton Society website,
• Amazon.com, 
• Barnes and Noble, or
• Google Play Books.

This week, we'll discuss the introductions and the preface.

Meeting 8/24 and Next Book

Greetings!

The Chesterton group will meet this Wednesday, 3/24, at 7:30 pm. This week, we'll be discussing three short essays:

• The Fallacy of Success,
• On Evil Euphemisms, and
• Compulsory Education and the Monkey Trial.

Next week, we shall begin a new book by a close collaborator and friend of Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, entitled An Essay on the Restoration of Property. You can get a copy at

• the American Chesterton Society website,
• Amazon.com, 
• Barnes and Noble, or
• Google Play Books.

Meeting 3/30

We'll be meeting on Wednesday 30 March 2016 to continue Chesterton's Eugenics and Other Evils. We'll discuss Part I, Chapter II, "The First Obstacles."

Happy Easter!

-Tom

Meeting 3/2

We'll be meeting on Wednesday 2 March 2016 to begin Chesterton's Eugenics and Other Evils. We'll discuss Part I, Chapter I, "What is Eugenics."

The text has been formatted into the customary forms:

• Standard 
• Paper-saving 
• E-book

But we also have a new form! It is this:

• Book

The Book form has the text set on statement (8.5 inch by 5.5 inch) paper. If you print it on normal letter paper, it will look fairly similar (though with a somewhat narrower text block) to the Standard form. Alternatively, it can be printed with two pages per sheet (or four pages per double-sided sheet) on letter paper and then stapled or sewn into a book.

Notice on Next Meeting

Our meeting, previously scheduled for Wednesday, 24 February, has been moved to Friday, 26 February.

Meeting 2/26

We'll be meeting on Friday, 26 February, at 7:30 pm to read an essay entitled Social Reform versus Birth Control. That title was a link to the text.

-Tom

Meeting 2/3

This week, we'll discuss The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis, the appendix.

This will, of course, conclude The Abolition of Man. The following week, we should be moving back to Chesterton. My proposal will be to cover Eugenics and Other Evils. We'll decide for sure on Wednesday. If that is the book we choose, I'll have a better-formatted version available over the weekend.

-Thomas

Meeting 1/27

This week, we'll discuss The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, the second half. If you're reading the version published by HarperOne, it starts on page 67 (with the words, "At the moment, then,") and ends on page 81 (with the words, "as not to see").

-Thomas

Meeting 1/20

This week, we'll discuss The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, the first half. If you're reading the version published by HarperOne, it starts on page 53 (with the words, "'Man's conquest of Nature'") and ends on page 67 (with the words, "the only course left open").

-Thomas