title: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton
author:  G. K. Chesterton 
description: Gilbert Keith Chesterton is one of the most prolific authors of modern times, having written some 100 books on many topics including philosophy, theology, poetry, literature, fiction and history. His best-selling works include <i>Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, St. Thomas &amp; St. Francis, The Man Who Was Thursday</i> and <i>Father Brown Stories.</i>
zlib_text: G. K. Chesterton
  The Outline of Sanity
  
  G. K. Chesterton
  (1874–1936)
  The Outline of Sanity
  (1927)
  
  Table of Contents
    Chapter I. Some General Ideas
    Chapter II. Some Aspects of Big Business
    Chapter III. Some Aspects of the Land
    Chapter IV. Some Aspects of Machinery
    Chapter V. A Note on Emigration
    Chapter VI. A Summary
  
  Chapter I. Some General Ideas
  I. The Beginning of the Quarrel
    I have been asked to republish these notes—which appeared in a
  weekly paper—as a rough sketch of certain aspects of the institution
  of Private Property, now so completely forgotten amid the journalistic
  jubilations over Private Enterprise. The very fact that the publicists
  say so much of the latter and so little of the former is a measure of
  the moral tone of the times. A pickpocket is obviously a champion of
  private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say
  that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about
  Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is t