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Prefatory Note
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About this book
There are two ways of getting home, Chesterton says, and one of them is to stay there; the other is to walk round the whole world until we come back to the same place. This is that second journey. Answering the popular histories that made man a mere animal and Christ a mere teacher, he walks the reader through the story of mankind, from the pictures in the prehistoric cave through the myths, philosophies and empires of the ancient world, to the child born in a cave at Bethlehem, and shows that seen freshly, from outside, both man and the Church are as strange and as unique as the creed has always said.
Far away in some strange constellation in skies infinitely remote, there is a small star, which astronomers may some day discover. At least I could never observe in the faces or demeanour of most astronomers or men of science any evidence that they had discovered it; though as a matter of fact they were walking about on it all the time.
Contents
- 1 Prefatory Note 1 min
- 2 Introduction: The Plan of This Book 23 min
- 3 The Man in the Cave 36 min
- 4 Professors and Prehistoric Men 33 min
- 5 The Antiquity of Civilisation 54 min
- 6 God and Comparative Religion 39 min
- 7 Man and Mythologies 32 min
- 8 The Demons and the Philosophers 43 min
- 9 The War of the Gods and Demons 30 min
- 10 The End of the World 30 min
- 11 The God in the Cave 35 min
- 12 The Riddles of the Gospel 26 min
- 13 The Strangest Story in the World 31 min
- 14 The Witness of the Heretics 37 min
- 15 The Escape from Paganism 37 min
- 16 The Five Deaths of the Faith 24 min
- 17 Conclusion: The Summary of This Book 20 min
- 18 Appendix I: On Prehistoric Man 3 min
- 19 Appendix II: On Authority and Accuracy 2 min
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