The Everlasting Man (Annotated)

In The Everlasting Man (1925), G. K. Chesterton offers a sweeping Christian interpretation of human history, written as a direct rejoinder to evolutionary and secular accounts of civilization, especially H. G. Wells's The Outline of History. Moving from prehistoric humanity to the emergence of Christianity, Chesterton combines paradox, wit, analogy, and historical imagination to argue that man is ...