The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton (1925) Prefatory Note Introduction: The Plan Of This Book Part I: On the Creature Called Man I. The Man in the Cave II. Professors and Prehistoric Men III. The Antiquity of Civilisation IV. God and Comparative Religion V. Man and Mythologies VI. The Demons and the Philosophers VII. The War of the Gods and Demons VIII. The End of the World Part II: On the Man Called Christ I. The God in the Cave II. The Riddles of the Gospel III. The Strangest Story in the World IV. The Witness of the Heretics V. The Escape from Paganism VI. The Five Deaths of the Faith Conclusion: The Summary Of This Book Appendix I. On Prehistoric Man Appendix II. On Authority and Accuracy
Prefatory Note 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