The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chai…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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