Talk:Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"
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Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"
Not good with this format. The above has the text of the book in HTML and PDF.
Piltdown Man edit
The current content under this sub-section is overly damning, and certainly doesn't take into account Wells's rather guarded treatment of the subject in TOoH. In particular he states:
- "There was moreover a jaw-bone among these scattered remains, which was at first assumed naturally enough to belong to Eoanthropus, but which it was afterwards suggested was probably that of a chimpanzee. It is extraordinarily like that of a chimpanzee, but Dr. Keith, one of the greatest authorities in these questions, assigns it, after an exhaustive analysis in his Antiquity of Man (1915), to the skull with which it is found. It is, as a jaw- bone, far less human in character than the jaw of the much more ancient Homo Heidelbergensis, but the teeth are in some respects more like those of living men."
Moreover, although there were a few doubters even in 1920, Wells was merely reflecting scientific opinion at the time. In a work the size of TOoH, the few paragraphs he devotes to what turned out to be a forgery are minuscule. Nick Cooper (talk) 13:53, 4 May 2016 (UTC)