Mr. Belloc Objects To "The Outline of History"

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Author

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Title

Mr. Belloc objects to "The outline of history"

Original Publication

New York: George H. Doran Co., 1926.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72333

Release Date

December 5, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.CONTENTS — MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”
4. 4.I MR. BELLOC’S ARTS OF CONTROVERSY — Disconcerting Pose of Mr. Belloc — Remarkable Portrait of Mr. Wells — Gathering Courage of Mr. Belloc — Reflections upon the Real Mr. Belloc — The Clue to Mr. Belloc’s Disconcerting Pose — Graceful Concessions to Mr. Belloc
5. 5.II THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION STATED — Natural Selection is Pure Common-Sense — Natural Selection Has Nothing to Do with the Origin of Variations — Testing the Theory — Some Irrelevant Questions
6. 6.III MR. BELLOC AS A SPECIMEN CRITIC OF NATURAL SELECTION — Mr. Belloc’s Mental Indigestion — Mr. Belloc’s Bird-Lizard — Troubles of Mr. Belloc as a Matrimonial Agent — Mr. Belloc Comes to His Evidence — Mr. Belloc a Fixed Type — Triumphant Demand of Mr. Belloc — A Magnificent Generalisation
7. 7.IV MR. BELLOC’S ADVENTURES AMONG THE SUB-MEN: MANIFEST TERROR OF THE NEANDERTHALER — Mr. Belloc as Iconoclast — Mr. Belloc Discovers a Mare’s-Nest — The Chasing of Mr. Belloc Begins — Where Was the Garden of Eden?
8. 8.V FIXITY OR PROGRESS — The Idea of Fixed Humanity — The Fundamental Issue — The Idea of Progressive Humanity — The New Thought and the Old — Old Wine in New Bottles
9. 9.Transcriber’s Notes

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