The Everlasting Man by G. K. CHESTERTON read by InTheDesert Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book
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The Everlasting Man by G. K. CHESTERTON (1874 - 1936) Genre(s): Christianity - Other Read by: InTheDesert in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction: The Plan of this Book 00:27:29 - 01 - The Man in the Cave 01:06:33 - 02 - Professors and Prehistoric Men 01:45:17 - 03 - The Antiquity of Civilisation 02:48:30 - 04 - God in Comparative Religion 03:32:59 - 05 - Man and Mythologies 04:10:40 - 06 - Demons and Philosphers 05:02:52 - 07 - The War of the Gods and Demons 05:36:42 - 08 - The End of the World 06:11:56 - 09 - The God in the Cave 06:52:08 - 10 - The Strangest Story in the World 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) More information: https://librivox.org/the-everlasting-man-by-g-k-chesterton/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)