![]() ![]() This discussion is amusing and insightful the ideas concerning the gulf between man and the animals, and his refutations concerning evolution, are quite good. Chesterton begins his text in a discussion of the anthropology of his time, specifically as it had begun to analyze primitive man. ![]() ![]() The book is divided into two parts: the first a discussion of man and the second a discussion of Christ and the church. Chesterton’s issue with Wells’ book was the minuscule role given to Christianity in the history of the world and thus he set out his own outline, that of The Everlasting Man (Hilaire Belloc’s book The Great Heresies similarly attempts to portray religion’s impact on history). In continuing the bout, The Everlasting Man is Chesterton’s answer to a book written by Wells entitled The Outline of History (which was possibly plagiarized anyway). As was noted with Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy, it was written in a format parodying that of one of Wells’ essays. ![]() Chesterton the latter two often engaging in debates with the former. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Lewis positing this book as one of the great contributors to his conversion to Christianity one can’t help but give into the curiosity to delve into the mind of Chesterton.ĭuring the early Twentieth Century four of the biggest writers were H.G. ![]()
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