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Excerpted from Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton

But the expansion of which I speak was much more evil than all this. I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought. These people seemed to think it singularly inspiring to keep on saying that the prison was very large. The size of this scientific universe gave one no novelty, no relief. The cosmos went on for ever, but not in its wildest constellation could there be anything really interesting; anything, for instance, such as forgiveness or free will.

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Cornelius Here Chesterton's imagination, normally so powerful, fails him utterly. The problem is that he is not interested in the universe, and so not only does he fail to see, he fails to even look.

Miranda He finds what he expected to find.

Athena Exactly. And so he misses not only the grandeur of the universe, but the miracle that is magnified by contrast: that forgiveness and free will do exist, within people.

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