![]() He wrote that Wells presented an admirable “accumulation of history” that was “only wrong as an outline” because it described a gradual evolution of both man and religion. Chesterton wrote explicitly in response to The Outline of History by H.G. The task he set himself in The Everlasting Man was to craft simultaneously an apologetic and a rebuttal. Chesterton published The Everlasting Man in 1925, and soon after he converted to Catholicism. He was a sort of philosopher, or at least an unapologetic apologist. He was outspokenly Anglican and then Catholic. ![]() Chesterton himself did not share this viewpoint. ![]() Chesterton lived in the early 20th century amid the heady, rational modernism of that age, which felt that humankind, though originating in mere, unguided evolution, had now progressed beyond the need for religion - or at least for sharp religious divisions. ![]()
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