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* Prefatory Note | * Prefatory Note | ||
* [[The Everlasting Man/Introduction|Introduction: The Plan Of This Book]] | * [[The Everlasting Man/Introduction|Introduction: The Plan Of This Book]] | ||
* Part I: On the Creature Called Man | * '''Part I: On the Creature Called Man''' | ||
** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 1|I. The Man in the Cave]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 1|I. The Man in the Cave]] | ||
** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 2|II. Professors and Prehistoric Men]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 2|II. Professors and Prehistoric Men]] | ||
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** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 7|VII. The War of the Gods and Demons]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 7|VII. The War of the Gods and Demons]] | ||
** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 8|VIII. The End of the World]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part I, 8|VIII. The End of the World]] | ||
* Part II: On the Man Called Christ | * '''Part II: On the Man Called Christ''' | ||
** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 1|I. The God in the Cave]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 1|I. The God in the Cave]] | ||
** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 2|II. The Riddles of the Gospel]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 2|II. The Riddles of the Gospel]] | ||
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** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 5|V. The Escape from Paganism]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 5|V. The Escape from Paganism]] | ||
** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 6|VI. The Five Deaths of the Faith]] | ** [[The Everlasting Man/Part II, 6|VI. The Five Deaths of the Faith]] | ||
* Conclusion: The Summary Of This Book | * [[The Everlasting Man/Conclusion and Appendices/Conclusion: The Summary Of This Book]] | ||
* Appendix I. On Prehistoric Man | ** Appendix I. On Prehistoric Man | ||
* Appendix II. On Authority and Accuracy | ** Appendix II. On Authority and Accuracy | ||
==Prefatory Note== | ==Prefatory Note== | ||
Revision as of 14:48, 9 December 2007
| The Everlasting Man written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity published in 1925. |
- Prefatory Note
- Introduction: The Plan Of This Book
- Part I: On the Creature Called Man
- Part II: On the Man Called Christ
- The Everlasting Man/Conclusion and Appendices/Conclusion: The Summary Of This Book
- Appendix I. On Prehistoric Man
- Appendix II. On Authority and Accuracy
Prefatory Note
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.