an agreement under all the arguments and a thread which,
please God, will never break.

Yours always,

G. K. Chesterton.

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PART ONE

THE HOMELESSNESS OF MAN

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THE MEDICAL MISTAKE

A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat
sharply defined. It begins as a rule with an analysis, with statistics,
tables of population, decrease of crime among Congregationalists,
growth of hysteria among policemen, and similar ascertained facts;
it ends with a chapter that is generally called "The Remedy." It is
almost wholly due to this careful, solid, and scientific method
that "The Remedy" is never found. For this scheme of medical question
and answer is a blunder; the first great blunder of sociology.
It is always called stating the disease before we find the cure.
But it is the whole definition and dignity of man that in social
matters we must actually find the cure before we find the disease .

The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern