The Hobbit,The Inklings And The New Middle Ages

C S Lewis claimed that reading  one of Chesterton's works The Everlasting Man 1925 was pivotal on his own journey from atheism to Christianity.The Everlasting Man was written by Chesterton as a rebuttal to his friend H G Well's Outline Of History which was an influential best seller in the 1920s.Well's history was essentially a scientific one which offended those of a religious bent such as GKC and his friend Hilaire Belloc both apologists  for Catholic Christianity.In the film of The Maltese Falcon Sidney Greenstreet tells Humphrey Bogart the story of the falcon and remarks "This is history sir,not Mr Wells History but history nonetheless" The Everlasting Man which told the story of Christianity in the late Roman world has the same message that there is more to history than Wells scientific rationality.George Orwell in his essay Wells,Hitler and The World State.made  a similar claim that to Wells history was essentially a series of victories of the scientific over the romantic man with his highest scorn reserved for conquerors such as Alexander and Napoleon.