How To Make Me Angry

"But we do know that [prehistoric man] did have pictures; and the pictures have remained. And there remains with them as already suggested the testimony to something that is absolute and unique; that belongs to man and to nothing else except man; that is a difference of kind and not a difference of degree. A monkey does not draw clumsily and a man cleverly; a monkey does not begin the art of representation and a man carry it to perfection. A monkey does not do it at all; he does not begin to do it at all; he does not begin to begin to do it at all. A line of some kind is crossed before the first faint line can begin."

-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

I'm trying. I really am trying to read this book. But it's passages like this that make it very difficult for me.

Monkeys do not begin to begin to do it at all? Are you fucking kidding with me? Look here. Or here. I just invalidated the premise of the first two chapters of this "great" work with 30 seconds worth of Google-ing.

This book has to get better. The next chapters must have better logic or better ideas or better something. I have to believe that a book this well-received, a book C.S. Lewis credited for his conversion to Christianity, has more to offer than the bait-and-switch arguments and faulty assumptions of the first chapters.

So the struggle continues.