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Prefatory Note 4 Introduction: The Plan of This Book 4 PART I: ON THE CREATURE CALLED MAN 10 I The Man in the Cave 10 II Professors and Prehistoric Men 19 III The Antiquity of Civilisation 28 IV God and Comparative Religion 42 V Man and Mythologies 52 VI Demons and Philosophers 60 VII The War of the Gods and Demons 72 VIII The End of the World 80 PART II: ON THE MAN CALLED CHRIST 88 I The God in the Cave 88 II The Riddles of the Gospel 97 III The Strangest Story in the World 104 IV The Witness of the Heretics 112 V The Escape from Paganism 122 VI The Five Deaths of the Faith 132 CONCLUSION: THE SUMMARY OF THIS BOOK 139 Appendix I. On Prehistoric Man 144 Appendix II. On Authority and Accuracy 145 THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK There 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, were 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.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1718923546
- ISBN 13 9781718923546
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages146
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