The Everlasting Man

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide. (Prefatory Note)

Genre(s): Christianity - Other

Language: English

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Play 00 Introduction: The Plan of this Book InTheDesert
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Play 01 The Man in the Cave InTheDesert
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Play 02 Professors and Prehistoric Men InTheDesert
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Play 03 The Antiquity of Civilisation InTheDesert
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Play 04 God in Comparative Religion InTheDesert
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Play 05 Man and Mythologies InTheDesert
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Play 06 Demons and Philosphers InTheDesert
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Play 07 The War of the Gods and Demons InTheDesert
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Play 08 The End of the World InTheDesert
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Play 09 The God in the Cave InTheDesert
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Play 10 The Strangest Story in the World InTheDesert
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Play 11 The Riddles of the Gospel InTheDesert
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Play 12 The Witness of the Heretics InTheDesert
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Play 13 The Escape from Paganism InTheDesert
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Play 14 The Five Deaths of the Faith InTheDesert
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Play 15 Conclusion: The Summary of the Book InTheDesert
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