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The Ball and the Cross

G. K. Chesterton

The story follows a Catholic Jacobite and an atheist socialist who attempt to duel over their opposing views on religion.

"The Ball and the Cross" by G. K. Chesterton is a novel. The story follows a Catholic Jacobite and an atheist socialist who attempt to duel over their opposing views on religion.

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The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening. That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed to be far above the stars. The professor had himself invented the flying machine, and had also invented nearly everything in it. Every sort of tool or apparatus had, in consequence, to the full, that fantastic and distorted look which belongs to the miracles of science. For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.

Contents

  1. 01I. A Discussion Somewhat in the Air
  2. 02II. The Religion of the Stipendiary Magistrate
  3. 03III. Some Old Curiosities
  4. 04IV. A Discussion at Dawn
  5. 05V. The Peacemaker
  6. 06VI. The Other Philosopher
  7. 07VII. The Village of Grassley-in-the-Hole
  8. 08VIII. An Interlude of Argument
  9. 09IX. The Strange Lady
  10. 10X. The Swords Rejoined
  11. 11XI. A Scandal in the Village
  12. 12XII. The Desert Island
  13. 13XIII. The Garden of Peace
  14. 14XIV. A Museum of Souls
  15. 15XV. The Dream of Macian
  16. 16XVI. The Dream of Turnbull
  17. 17XVII. The Idiot
  18. 18XVIII. A Riddle of Faces
  19. 19XIX. The Last Parley
  20. 20XX. Dies Irae

About this edition

Author
G. K. Chesterton
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
224 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers