What is Right with the World

What is Right with the World by Gilbert Keith Chesterton is an essay of positivity. Chesterton focuses on the beginning of Creation and the fact that it was created"good." He is not as naive as to ignore the evil in the world nor to deny that trouble abounds. He makes a positive rebuttal to the opposing views of several specific schools of thought, such as modern progressives, Meliorists, and pessimists. As he points out in the last part of his essay, the"voices of the saints and sages" need to be louder than that of the discontents.

Wailand Groenendyk
CCEL Staff Writer