The Everlasting Man · Character
Mr. H. G. Wells
The popular historian whose tidy outline of human progress Chesterton keeps interrupting, insisting the real story is stranger than the sketch.
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Also known as Mr. Wells
First appearance: part i on the creature called man
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He is the contemporary foil, the confident narrator of history whose smooth evolutionary account Chesterton sets out to unsettle. Where Wells sees development and stages, Chesterton sees a flash of lightning and an…
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See Mr. H. G. Wells in part i on the creature called man