Where Wells tried to explain away, through airy appeals to evolution, man’s sense that he is unique among the animals and his chronic craving for God, Chesterton decides instead to squat beside the caveman and try to suss out the anthropologists. will have to go.” So much for Wells’s liberality, and powers of prediction.) (He also predicted that progress and contraception would lead at last to an all-white planet, opining once that “those swarms of blacks, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people. Wells - a novelist who turned in serious moments from science fiction to fictional science. The book was written in answer to The Outline of History by H. The audience for this apologetic is a reading public not so different from our own - composed in large part of lazy ex-Christians, hazy post-Christians, New Age skeptics, old-fashioned modernists, and wistful, romantic materialists. A roistering tale of earthly life, and its fitful pilgrimage from the primordial ooze up through the conversion of Evelyn Waugh, The Everlasting Man is the ale-drinker’s answer to Hegel. In this easy book of medium length, Chesterton tries the impossible - and nails it. When your package arrives, settle into a comfy chair with a decent supply of monastic beer, because you’re in for a wild ride. If you don’t know the book, stop reading now. One of the books I’m teaching this semester is a title that, over the years, I’ve found indispensable for my sanity, such as it is: G.
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