The Everlasting Man
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- First published
- 1925
- Pages
- 234
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Introduction: The Plan of this Book
27:30 -
The Man in the Cave
39:04 -
Professors and Prehistoric Men
38:44 -
The Antiquity of Civilisation
63:13 -
God in Comparative Religion
44:28 -
Man and Mythologies
37:41 -
Demons and Philosphers
52:12 -
The War of the Gods and Demons
33:50 -
The End of the World
35:14 -
The God in the Cave
40:12 -
The Strangest Story in the World
34:32 -
The Riddles of the Gospel
28:12 -
The Witness of the Heretics
41:25 -
The Escape from Paganism
41:14 -
The Five Deaths of the Faith
27:39 -
Conclusion: The Summary of the Book
22:30 -
Appendices
5:50
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About this book
Written as a reply to H. G. Wells's sweeping, secular Outline of History, this 1925 study takes a longer view of what a human being actually is. Chesterton divides the argument in two. The first half looks at prehistoric man, the cave painter and toolmaker, insisting that people were never simply clever animals but something set apart from the beginning. The second half turns to Christ and the strange, uncomfortable claims of Christianity, which Chesterton reads as unlike any myth or philosophy that came before. Wit and paradox carry the reasoning, and the book helped nudge a young C. S. Lewis toward faith.
From the opening pages
On the Creature Called Man
The Man in the Cave
Far away in some strange constellation in skies infinitely remote, there is a small star, which astronomers may some day discover. At least I could never observe in the faces or demeanour of most astronomers or men of science any evidence that they had discovered it; though as a matter of fact they were walking about on it all the time. It is a star that brings forth out of itself very strange plants and very strange animals; and none stranger than the men of science. That at least is the way in which I should begin a history of the world if I had to follow the scientific custom of beginning with an account of the astronomical universe. I should try to see even this earth from the outside, not by the hackneyed insistence of its relative position to the sun, but by some imaginative effort to conceive its remote position for the dehumanised spectator. Only I do not believe in being dehumanised in order to study humanity. I do not believe in dwelling upon the distances that are supposed to dwarf the world; I think there is even something a trifle vulgar about this idea of trying to rebuke spirit by size. And as the first idea is not feasible, that of making the earth a strange planet so as to make it significant, I will not stoop to the other trick of making it a small planet in order to make it insignificant. I would rather insist that we do not even know that it is a planet at all, in the sense in which we know that it is a place; and a very extraordinary place too. That is the note which I wish to strike from the first, if not in the astronomical, then in some more familiar fashion.
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Book facts
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- First published
- 1925
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Christianity
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