The Everlasting Man What if anything is it that makes the human uniquely human This in part is the question that G K Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history Responding to the evolutionary

What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human This, in part, is the question that G.K Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history Responding to the evolutionary materialism of his contemporary and antagonist H.G Wells, Chesterton in this work affirms human uniqueness and the unique message of the Christian faith Writing in a tiWhat, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human This, in part, is the question that G.K Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history Responding to the evolutionary materialism of his contemporary and antagonist H.G Wells, Chesterton in this work affirms human uniqueness and the unique message of the Christian faith Writing in a time when social Darwinism was rampant, Chesterton instead argued that the idea that society has been steadily progressing from a state of primitivism and barbarity towards civilization is simply and flatly inaccurate Barbarism and civilization were not successive stages in the progress of the world, he affirms, with arguments drawn from the histories of both Egypt and Babylon As always with Chesterton, there is in this analysis something as he said of Blake very plain and emphatic He sees in Christianity a rare blending of philosophy and mythology, or reason and story, which satisfies both the mind and the heart On both levels it rings true As he puts it, in answer to the historical query of why it was accepted, and is accepted, I answer for millions of others in my reply because it fits the lock because it is like life Here, as so often in Chesterton, we sense a lived, awakened faith All that he writes derives from a keen intellect guided by the heart s own knowledge.
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About " G.K. Chesterton "
G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 1936 was born in London, educated at St Paul s, and went to art school at University College London In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 , hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest detective, Father Brown In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News He also edited his own newspaper, G.K s Weekly.Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.