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The Everlasting Man

G.K. Chesterton · first edition text (1925)

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Contents

Prefatory Note
Introduction: The Plan of This Book
Part I: On the Creature Called Man
Chapter I: The Man in the Cave
Chapter II: Professors and Prehistoric Men
Chapter III: The Antiquity of Civilisation
Chapter IV: God and Comparative Religion
Chapter V: Man and Mythologies
Chapter VI: The Demons and the Philosophers
Chapter VII: The War of the Gods and Demons
Chapter VIII: The End of the World
Part II: On the Man Called Christ
Chapter I: The God in the Cave
Chapter II: The Riddles of the Gospel
Chapter III: The Strangest Story in the World
Chapter IV: The Witness of the Heretics
Chapter V: The Escape from Paganism
Chapter VI: The Five Deaths of the Faith
Conclusion: The Summary of This Book
Appendix I: On Prehistoric Man
Appendix II: On Authority and Accuracy

Source & edition

First published 1925 (Hodder & Stoughton; Dodd, Mead). Public domain in the United States since 2021.

Digital text: Project Gutenberg. The Project Gutenberg header and license have been removed from the reading pages; the downloads are Project Gutenberg’s unaltered files, license included.

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