{"product_id":"2940148774068","title":"The Everlasting Man","description":"THE EVERLASTING MAN \u003cbr\u003eby G.K. CHESTERTON\u003cbr\u003eTHERE are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I once wrote. It is, however, a relief to turn from that topic to another story that I never wrote. Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. It is only too probable that I shall never write it, so I will use it symbolically here; for it was a symbol of the same truth. I conceived it as a romance of those vast valleys with sloping sides, like those along which the ancient White Horses of Wessex are scrawled along the flanks of the \"'hills. It concerned some boy whose farm or cottage stood on such a slope, and who went on his travels to find something, such as the effigy and grave of some giant; and when he was -far enough from home he looked back and saw that his own \"farm and kitchen-garden, shining flat on the hill-side like the colours and quarterings of a shield, werre but parts of some such gigantic figure, on which he had always lived, but which was too large and too close to be seen. That, I think, is a true picture of the progress of any really independent intelligence today; and that is the point of this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe point of this book, in other words, is that the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it. They are on a debatable ground, in every sense of the term. They are doubtful in their very doubts. Their criticism has taken on a curious tone; as of a random and illiterate heckling. Thus they make current and anti-clerical cant as a sort of smalltalk. They will complain of parsons dressing like parsons; as if we should be any more free if all the police who shadowed ?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE\u003cbr\u003eON THE CREATURE CALLED MAN\u003cbr\u003eI The Man in the Cave\u003cbr\u003eII Professors and Prehistoric Men\u003cbr\u003eIII The Antiquity of Civilisation\u003cbr\u003eIV God and Comparative Religion\u003cbr\u003eV Man and Mythologies\u003cbr\u003eVI The Demons and Philosophers\u003cbr\u003eVII The War of the Gods and Demons\u003cbr\u003eVIII The End of the World\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO\u003cbr\u003eON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST\u003cbr\u003eI The God in the Cave\u003cbr\u003eII The Riddles of the Gospel\u003cbr\u003eIII The Strangest Story in the, World\u003cbr\u003eIV The Witness of the Heretics\u003cbr\u003eV The Escape from Paganism\u003cbr\u003eVI The Five Deaths of the Faith\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Summary of This Book\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I: On Prehistoric Man\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II: On Authority and Accuracy","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072735265008,"sku":"2940148774068","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148774068_p0.jpg?v=1763708126","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148774068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}