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The Modern Era · 1925
The Everlasting Man
G. K. Chesterton · 1874–1936
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What it is
A history of the human race in two halves — before Christ and after — written to answer the popular evolutionary histories of the day by insisting that both man among the animals and Christ among men are discontinuities, not gradual steps.
Why it lasted
The book Lewis credited with baptising his intellect, and Chesterton's most substantial argument rather than his most quotable one.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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