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A Defence of Skeletons
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Sarah Bacaller
- Publisher
- Voices of Today Pty LTD
- Publish Date
- 15 October 2024
- Run Time
- 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Philosophy, Philosophy
What to expect
Why do humans have a horror of skeletons? Is this aversion justified? What does it signify?
Such are the animating questions of this essay by G. K. Chesterton, who acts as a witty defendant for humanity’s hidden form:
“Without claiming for the human skeleton a wholly conventional beauty,” he writes, “we may assert that he is certainly not uglier than a bull-dog, whose popularity never wanes, and that he has a vastly more cheerful and ingratiating expression.”
This essay is one in a series titled ‘The Defendant’, first published as a collection in 1901, after the individual essays were published in The Speaker. Here, a selection of these essays has been reissued by Voices of Today for a new generation.
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Details
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Sarah Bacaller
- Duration
- 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 October 2024
- ISBN
- 9798228270336
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Voices of Today Pty LTD
- Genre
- Philosophy, Philosophy
Synopsis
Why do humans have a horror of skeletons? Is this aversion justified? What does it signify?Such are the animating questions of this essay by G. K. Chesterton, who acts as a witty defendant for humanity’s hidden form:“Without claiming for the human skeleton a wholly conventional beauty,” he writes, “we may assert that he is certainly not uglier than a bull-dog, whose popularity never wanes, and that he has a vastly more cheerful and ingratiating expression.”This essay is one in a series titled ‘The Defendant’, first published as a collection in 1901, after the individual essays were published in The Speaker. Here, a selection of these essays has been reissued by Voices of Today for a new generation.
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