The Everlasting Man (Illustrated & Annotated)

by G.K. Chesterton

Whether we praise these things as natural to man or abuse them as artificial in nature, they remain in the same sense unique.

Great point. And great line.

But when he builds as he does build and is satisfied and sings aloud with satisfaction, then we know there is really an invisible veil like a pane of glass between him and us, like the window on which a bird will beat in vain.

Main point of the chapter, I believe.

This is a good section, although I’m not entirely sure what it means. It’s mainly good as a “call to wonder” on the part of those scientists and naturalistic thinkers who otherwise think that reality is all very neat and tidy.

For clothes are very literally vestments and man wears them because he is a priest.

But I am not at issue in this book with sincere and genuine scholars, but with a vast and vague public opinion which has been prematurely spread from certain imperfect investigations, and which has made fashionable a false notion of the whole history of humanity.

Good clarification.