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A companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of history"

Chapter 21: INDEX
By Hilaire Belloc
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About This Book

An avowedly Catholic critic surveys a contemporary popular outline of human history, challenging its anti-Catholic assumptions and correcting factual and interpretive errors. The book proceeds chapter by chapter, critiquing accounts of creation, the Fall, the nature of God, religion's origins, priesthood, the Incarnation, the emergence of the Church, Islam, the medieval period, the Reformation, and the consequences of religious disruption, and supplies alternative readings grounded in Catholic theology and historical evidence. The author balances sharp polemic with praise for the original author's clarity and chronological sense while offering apologetic arguments intended to fortify Catholic readers against secular historiography.

INDEX

  • Albigenses, 97
  • Alphabet, 53
  • Alva, 100
  • Andaman Islanders, 38
  • A priori Arguments, 20, 21–4
  • Arabs, 80–3
  • Arian Heresy, 76
  • Aryan tongues, 48
  • Augustine, St., 32, 95
  • Austrasia (Neustria), 85–6
  • Averroës, 81
  • Bear, Polar, 16, 21
  • Bernard Shaw, Mr., 10
  • Bible Christian, 10, 13, 31, 32, 43, 50, 90
  • Buddhism, 59–63
  • Carthage, 45, 57, 64
  • Catholic Church, 6, 7, 31, 49, 58, 70, 72–4, 82, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 98
  • Cato, 64
  • Cave drawings, 43
  • Charles V, 101–2
  • Chinese Culture, 52, 53, 56, 77–9
  • Clovis, 86
  • Cobbett, 6
  • Coleman, Professor, 29, 30
  • Count, Roman Title, 87
  • Creation, 9 ff., 12
  • Croll’s “Theory of Glaciation,” 8, 29
  • Cromwell, Oliver, 105–6, 109
  • Crusades, 89, 90
  • Dark Ages, 84–8
  • Darwin, Charles, 12, 13, 73
  • Design, 11–15, 17, 22
  • Driesch, 11, 27
  • Dwight, Professor, 26, 27
  • Elephant, 17
  • Eoanthropos, 30
  • Evolution, 10, 17, 48.
    • See also Natural Selection
  • Experience, Argument from, 20
  • Fall of Man, 28, 32, 33
  • Fathers of the Church, their support, of Evolution, 12, 26
  • Feudalism, 84
  • Filioque clause, 78–9, 87
  • Franks, 86
  • Frazer. See “Golden Bough”
  • Frederic II, 91
  • Fustel, 86
  • Gentry, 6, 49
  • Geological argument, 21, 26
  • God, 11–13, 27, 34–9, 40
  • “Golden Bough,” 8, 45
  • Gospels, Mr. Wells’s attitude towards, 5, 68–72, 87
  • Grant Allen, 8, 36
  • Huc, Abbé, 62–3
  • Huguenots, 100, 102
  • Human Sacrifice, 45–6.
    • See also Sacrifice
  • Huss, 95, 96
  • Ignatius, St. 73
  • Immaculate Conception, 77–8
  • Immortality, 42, 61, 80
  • Incarnation, 62, 64, 67–72
  • Islam, 77–84, 87, 88, 97
  • James II, 106–7
  • Jewish Race, 39, 59
  • Julius Cæsar, 65–6
  • Kingship versus Priesthood, 55, 56, 57, 58, 91
  • Lamarck, 11, 27
  • Lang, Andrew, 39, 45
  • Language, Development of, 47, 48
  • Lichfield, Strange case of Commercial Traveller in, 103
  • Luther. See Reformation
  • Man, Age of, 26
  • Marco Polo, 82–3
  • Marie Antoinette, 108
  • Materialist, 31, 42
  • Medicine, Practice of, in Dark Ages, 85
  • Mediterranean, 49, 52
  • Mesopotamian Culture, 52
  • Middle Ages, 89–93
  • Mithras, 74–6
  • Modernist, 35, 61, 68–9, 75, 108
  • Mogul Empire, 98
  • Mohammed. See Islam
  • Mongols, 82
  • Monism, 110
  • Morillet, 42
  • Muret, Battle of, 97
  • Napoleon, 5, 109
  • Natural Selection, 10 ff., 14
    • Arguments against, 19 ff.
    • Implication, 15
    • Summarized, 18
  • Neanderthal Man, 30, 44, 49
  • Nestorians, 87
  • Normans, 86
  • “Old Man,” Supposed origin of God, 35–6
  • Original Sin, 31, 32
  • Ottoman. See Turks
  • Our Lady, 71, 75
  • Our Lord, Mr. Wells’s description of, 68–73
  • Palæolithic Man, 30, 42, 43, 44
  • Parliament, 104–5
  • Paul, St., 72–4
  • Persecution, 70, 107–8
  • Persian Gulf, 52
  • Pig, 25
  • Piltdown, Fossil fragments of, 30
  • Popes, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 100
  • Priesthood, 51 ff., 54, 55, 56, 57–8
  • Protestant Culture, its present attitude, 110–14
  • Provincialism, 4
  • Recapitulation, Theory of, 28
  • Red Sea, 52
  • Reformation, 89, 92, 93, 97–103
  • Resurrection, Mr. Wells on, 74–5
  • Robespierre, 108–9
  • Rome, 64, 65–8
  • Russians in England, Legend of, 75
  • Sacrament, 40
  • Sacrifice, 40, 41, 45, 74–5
  • Savages, Evidence from, 38
  • Shakespeare, 102–3
  • Stonehenge, 46
  • Sumerian kingship, 56
  • Thomas Aquinas, St., 34, 95
  • Trinity, Doctrine of Mr. Wells’s ignorance upon, 34, 78–9
  • Turks, 82
  • Type, “Fixed” or “Stable,” 16, 21, 24–5, 26, 38
  • Veneration, 40, 41
  • Vialleton, Professor, 12, 28, 29
  • Wallace, biologist, 12, 13
  • Weissmann, 17
  • Wells, Mr. See also Bible Christian, 3–4
  • Westphalia, Peace of, 107
  • Wycliffe, 92–3, 96
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