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An unabridged?? unaltered edition to include: Prefatory Note ? Introduction: The Plan of This Book ? The Man in the Cave ? Professors and Prehistoric Men ? The Antiquity of Civilisation ? God and Comparative Religion ? Man and Mythologies ? Demons and the Philosoph"s ? The War of the Gods and Demons ? The End of the World ? The God in the Cave ? The Riddles of the Gospel ? The Strangest Story in the World ? The Witness of the Heretics ? The Escape from Paganism ? The Five Deaths of the Faith ? Conclusion: The Summary of This Book ? Appendix I: On Prehistoric Man ? Appendix II: On Authority and Accuracy ?

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What?? if anything?? is it that makes the human uniquely human? This?? in part?? is the question that G.K. Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history. Responding to the evolutionary materialism of his contemporary (and antagonist) H.G. Wells?? Chesterton in this work affirms human uniqueness and the unique message of the Christian faith. Writing in a time when social Darwinism was rampant?? Chesterton instead argued that the idea that society has been ste