2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. The Everlasting Man is a one of Chestertons better-known works in Christian apologetics. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells The Outline of History, disputing Wells portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey in Orthodoxy, but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization. The author Ross Douthat credits that, "Chestertons somewhat loosey-goosey outline of history doubles as the best modern argument for Christianity Ive ever read. You have to give in to the Chestertonian style, but if you do, be careful - you might just be converted.
C. S. Lewis credited The Everlasting Man with "baptizing" his intellect, much as George MacDonalds writings had baptized his imagination, so as to make him more than half-converted well before he could bring himself to embrace Christianity. In a 1950 letter to Sheldon V
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