THE FALL OF MAN TAKEN ALLEGORICALLY
"All the optimism of the age had been disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit in to the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from God. But now I really was happy, for I had learnt that man was a monstrosity. I had been right in feeling all things as odd, for I myself was at once worse and better than all things. The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; in the light of the supernatural. The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I had still felt depressed even in aquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring... That is the inmost philosophy of the Fall. In Sir Oliver Lodge's Catechism, the first two questions were: 'What are you?' I could only answer, 'God knows.' And to the question, 'What is meant by the Fall?' I could answer with complete sincerity, 'That whatever I am, I am not myself.'" --G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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